"Oh, but they're just a parasite-race on the Terrans," Dr. Paula Quinton objected.
As they turned away, they almost collided with Hideyoshi O'Leary and Paula Quinton.
"I suppose you think it's a joke, our being nearly murdered by the people we came to help," Paula began, a trifle defensively.
"There are people, O Paula and Eustochium," exclaims the Christian Cicero, vibrant with emotion and in a burst of eloquence that recalls one of the burning philippics of Marcus Tullius, "who take offence at seeing your names at the beginning of my works.