"Hmm—" Got up and walked around. Ask Wyoh’s opinion? Nobody knew Wyoh’s virtues better than I. . . but she oscillated between fierceness and too-human compassion—and I had learned already that a "head of state," even an acting one, must have neither. Ask Greg? Greg was a good farmer, a better mechanic, a rousing preacher; I loved him dearly—but did not want his opinion. Stu? I had had his opinion.