Watching Their Steps

"I guess I meant to ask whether this whole thing was a good idea."

"It was good that the scientists figured Tuttle to do well," Prefontaine said. "They're on the right track. But it's good that there is still room for people to dream, too. I don't know. Science is one thing, but when you're the guinea pig it can get stale pretty fast." He confided that each evening before bed he had been served a split of Veuve Clicquot and a pear or some grapes. Now, after the sauna and a plunge in the icy swimming pool, he would be taken horseback riding and to dinner at the club and fly home the possessor of an Oleg Cassini sweat suit, courtesy of Horowitz. Straight-faced, he said, "This thing sure would have been tough without the hosts."