For once Lance did not object to the robot's presence in the same room. He kept pacing up and down, up and down. The robot brought Fred a sundae.
"What happened to the cherry?"he asked.
The robot looked at Fred. Fred grabbed the robot by the head and smashed it against the wall. Two other robots came and took it away.
"I just can't be married here!"exclaimed Lance.
"Just pretend you're gay."said Pietro.
"Do you suppose they'll believe it? Would it work?"
Pietro shrugged.
"Of course, if I was gay, then they wouldn't want my genes in the common pool! Cause it would contaminate them!"he exclaimed. "Besides, they don't like to touch people, wouldn't it seem logical that I wouldn't want to touch anyone, either?"
"You think, yo?"
"Of course! R! I'm gonna go to the farm. Or is not, the Delmarre estate."
"Perhaps you could ask Dr.Delmarre if he would let us borrow some robots. The number of robots here has decreased by much, and the rest are still in the repair shop."said R.Daneel. "We go through at least three a day."
"I'll think about it."
Lance ran out of the house. When he got to the farm, it was already dark, on that part of the planet.
"God, I hate time zones!"he said. "Out of my way!"he said to the robots in the door way.
"Yes, Master."they said, as they moved away.
"Where's Delmarre?"
"I believe he went back to his own estate, Master."
"Oh, shut up! I'll check just in case."he said.
He went inside. He had no idea where Delmarre's office was.
"Where does Dr.Delmarre work?"
"He works here, Master. On the farm. He's a fetal engineer."
"I know, I know. I mean, his office. Where does he spent most of his time?"
"At the farm, Master."
Lance glared at the robot, and send it away.
"Just get out of here! I don't wanna see any of you as long as I'm here!"he yelled at it.
"Yes, Master."
The robot left immediately.
"Stupid robots."
He went towards the other side of the building. Maybe it was in a place where he hadn't been before. The door was locked, so he made the wall shake until it fell apart. He walked in, and found some files.
"Hmm These should be those knowledge of relationships Klorissa talks about. The matching."he thought.
A robot was in the room.
"Get out of here."Lance said to it.
"The Master-"
"I'm the master! I work here, and I want you to get out while I do a little bit of research on my own! It's important! I'll call you if I need you."
"Yes, Master."
Lance read through the lists.
"Wow, she doesn't exaggerate when she says they know exactly what the little boys and girls are made of. There're already matches for them!"
Lance looked for his own gene analysis. He found it, along with whom he would be most compatible, it seemed.
"I am most definitely not marrying this one."he said. "Or anyone."
He turned the computer on, and pressed some keys.
"Hmm. I wonder if the boss has any kids."he wondered. "It's the hardest thing in life, isn't it, doctor? Yeah, from what I've seen of you, it is. Now we'll just make it a little harder for you. A pity we'll just make it a little harder."
He saw what seemed to be Delmarre's seeing schedule. Apparently, today was a seeing day.
"Dammit! A little late! Next seeing day...about a week from now. So, now you will find, Dr.Delmarre that you have been assigned a child, after all, just like you said, it has to be endured, and your genes are necessary in the common pool. And we'll start on the next seeing day!"
He entered the information, and wrote down Delmarre's schedule.
"Good. Now we just need something to film it."
He called for the robot.
"I need a camera or something. Something to film a scene."he told the robot.
"Yes, Master."
The robot came back, with a small camera.
"All righty, then. Now to we just have to save this to the Delmarre estate."
He headed there next. One of the robots met him.
"Hey, you know, the doctor has seeing days, right?"
"Yes, Master."
"Do you know where these seeing days take place."
"In the mistress's quarters, Master."
"Well, on the next seeing day, you are to record the whole scene here, and you're supposed to connect it so that it can be viewed from my estate, you understand?"
"Yes, Master."
"Good, you better not let me down, and don't let the doctor know about it, see, it's a very special surprise."
"Yes, Master."
"After you've done all this, you've got to forget it. Every part of it, okay."
"Yes, Master."