Jill shut up.  She had never in her life experienced the giant ruthlessness of giant power.  Outside of her knowledge of nursing and of the joyous guerilla warfare between the sexes, Jill was almost as innocent as the Man from Mars.  The notion that she, Jill Boardman, who had never experienced anything worse than a spanking as a child and an occasional harsh word as an adult, could be in physical danger was almost impossible for her to believe.  As a nurse, she had seen the consequences of ruthlessness, violence, brutality - but it could not happen to her.