"Everything I've been doing I've been doing for In-Tell. There was no choice. Everybody has their price and I had mine. Now, if you want, you can let me absorb the GRAMMATRON system into me and we can live happily ever after. Unlimited partnership with all the free Cynnie innerware you can ever hope to rock your brain with."

"But is there really such a thing as happily ever after?" He was trying to fight off her irresistible energy.

"Well, what I meant was... Abe, let me ask you something else: Do you believe in 'Once upon a time'...?"

"No."