[Ordinarily, Wysteria isn't one to squirm under examination. And why should she? Yet sitting there in that smoky office under the point of his attention, she maybe shifts just a little on the stool where she's perched.]

If you're trying to impress upon me some fact about the dangers of this work or to offer some caution in a similar vein, then allow me to reassure you, Mister Dickerson—I am quite aware. In fact I recall you and I discussing the importance of making rational, measured decisions about our approach to all of this in some detail.