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The
question
startled
Jill
Boardman
.
Her
sex
had
not
been
in
doubt
to
the
most
casual
observer
for
many
years
.
Her
first
impulse
was
to
answer
flippantly
.
But
Smith
’
s
grave
face
and
oddly
disturbing
eyes
checked
her
.
She
became
aware
emotionally
that
the
impossible
fact
about
this
patient
was
true
:
he
did
not
know
what
a
woman
was
.
She
answered
carefully
,
"
Yes
,
I
am
a
woman
.
"
Smith
continued
to
stare
at
her
without
expression
.
Jill
began
to
be
embarrassed
by
it
.
To
be
looked
at
appreciatively
by
a
male
she
expected
and
sometimes
enjoyed
,
but
this
was
more
like
being
examined
under
a
microscope
.
She
stirred
restively
.
"
Well
?
I
look
like
a
woman
,
don
’
t
I
?
"
"
I
do
not
know
,
"
Smith
answered
slowly
.
"
How
does
woman
look
?
What
makes
you
woman
?
"
"
Well
,
for
pity
’
s
sake
!
"
Jill
realized
confusedly
that
this
conversation
was
further
out
of
hand
than
any
she
had
had
with
a
male
since
about
her
twelfth
birthday
.
"
You
don
’
t
expect
me
to
take
off
my
clothes
and
show
you
!
"
Smith
took
time
to
examine
these
verbal
symbols
and
try
to
translate
them
.
The
first
group
he
could
not
grok
at
all
.
It
might
be
one
of
those
formal
sound
groups
these
people
so
often
used
He
knew
vaguely
that
he
did
not
want
the
nurse
to
die
at
that
moment
,
even
though
it
was
certainly
its
right
and
possibly
its
obligation
to
do
so
.
The
abrupt
change
from
the
rapport
of
the
Water
ritual
to
a
situation
in
which
a
newly
won
water
brother
might
possibly
be
considering
withdrawal
or
discorporation
would
have
thrown
him
into
panic
had
he
not
been
consciously
suppressing
such
disturbance
.
But
he
decided
that
if
Jill
died
now
he
must
die
at
once
also
-
he
could
not
grok
it
in
any
other
wise
,
not
after
the
giving
of
water
.
The
second
half
of
the
communication
contained
only
symbols
that
he
had
encountered
before
.
He
grokked
imperfectly
the
intention
but
there
seemed
to
be
an
implied
way
out
for
him
to
avoid
this
crisis
-
by
acceding
to
the
suggested
wish
.
Perhaps
if
the
woman
took
its
clothes
off
neither
of
them
need
discorporate
.
He
smiled
happily
.
"
Please
.
"
