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Domin

[Picking up telescope and looking into the harbor]: Good God, the Ultimus has trained her guns on us!

Dr. Gall

Who's done that?

Domin

The Robots on board.

Fabry

H'm, then, of course, then—then, that's the end of us.

Dr. Gall

You mean?

Fabry

The Robots are practised marksmen.

Domin

Yes. It's inevitable. [Pause.]

Dr. Gall

It was criminal of old Europe to teach the Robots to fight. Damn them. Couldn't they have given us a rest with their politics? It was a crime to make soldiers of them.