"We found it rather singular. While we would not dream of enquiring into 
the particulars of your conversation with Lieutenant Chang, or of prying into 
your affairs in any other way, it did occur to some suspicious minds 
here—ones that have perhaps been exposed to the Oriental milieu for too 
long—that Lieutenant Chang's intentions might not be entirely 
honourable, and that he might bear watching. At the
same time, for your own protection, we decided to keep a motherly eye on you 
during any later sojourns beyond the dog pod grid." Napier did some more 
scrawling on his paper. Hackworth watched his pale blue eyes 
jumping back and forth as various records materialized on its 
surface.