"You're only encouraging him, you know, Peter," Ray said. "If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times, the more you gratuitously feed him-"

"The more he's going to expect it at other times, I know, I know," Peter retorted. "Come on, Ray, what else am I supposed to do, huh?"

"I don't know, read?" Ray said. "Check on some of the experiments upstairs? Go over the next- what are you looking at me like that for?"

"Ray," said Peter slowly, "you have a passenger."