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The orders were to leave the natives of the new planet strictly alone. But those surveyors' wives were women, and women don't obey orders -- or leave people alone!
"Now, don't get the idea that this is a universe-shaking assignment," Captain Harnick warned the four young people. "The planet's of no particular importance; otherwise we would never have assigned an untried team."