 How did Jery feel when he first encountered the security men?
So when the Chief of World Security told him that he had been selected as the answer to the Solar System's greatest mystery, Jery assumed that it was because of his mental agility. For Jery had become a walking bomb, and when he set himself off, it would be the end of the whole puzzle of THE SECRET MARTIANS—with Jery as the first to go! "Jery Delvin?" said the one on my left, a note of no-funny-business in his brusque baritone. Security men were not hired for their loquaciousness.
 confused and nervous
 confused and nervous  frustrated and annoyed  guilty and sad  nervous yet excited