 How does Ben feel about Mickey?
Mickey Cameron, sitting next to me, dug an elbow into my ribs. Just one, which I'd sent to Charlie Taggart. I remembered how, as a kid, I'd pestered him in the Long Island Spaceport, tagging after him like a puppy, and how he'd grown to like me until he became father, mother, and buddy all in one to me. Usually Mickey was the same whether in a furnace-hot engine room or a garden party, smiling, accepting whatever the world offered. Then Mickey strode up to us. Charlie gulped helplessly, and Mickey said: "Still going to spend the weekend with us, aren't you, Ben?" A moment later Mickey said, frowning, "What was he talking about, Ben?
 Ben likes Mickey, they work well together.
 Ben thinks Mickey is a great guy, just not a great co-worker.  Ben likes Mickey, they work well together.  Ben does not like Mickey. He is relieved Mickey is not headed to space with him.  Ben thinks of Mickey as his own brother.