his the reckless way almost all these people drove their the of supposing that these could carry on a government as much as six months if they ever did have a chance to try out their theories and the crazy way in which jumped from subject to subject had once beheld as a thin man with spectacles mournful drawn out face and stiff hair now she noted that his jaw was square that his long hands moved quickly and were in a refined manner and that his trusting eyes indicated that he had led a clean life she began to call him ray and to in of his and every time or about him at the jolly seventeen on a sunday afternoon of late autumn they walked down to lake ray said that he would like to see the ocean it must be a grand sight it must be much than a lake even a great big lake had seen it she stated modestly she had seen it on a summer trip to cape have you been clear to cape i knew you d but i never realized you d been that made taller and younger by his interest she poured out x h my yes it was a trip so many points of interest through � historical there s where we turned back the and s home at cambridge and cape � just everything � and and sand and everything main street she wished that she had a little cane to carry he broke off a willow branch my you re strong she said � no not very i wish there was a y m c a here so i could take up regular exercise i used to think i could do pretty good if i had a chance i m sure you could you re unusually for a large man oh no not so very but i wish we had a y m it would be to have lectures and everything and i d like to take a class in improving the memory � i believe a fellow ought to go on himself and improving his mind even if he is in business don t you � i guess i m kind of fresh to you i ve been calling you ray for weeks he wondered why she sounded he helped her down the bank to the edge of the lake but dropped her hand abruptly and as they sat on a willow log and he her sleeve he delicately moved over and murmured oh excuse me � accident she stared at the mud chilly water the floating gray you look so thoughtful he said she threw out her hands i am will you kindly tell me what s the use of � anything oh don t mind me fm a moody old hen tell me about your plan for getting a in the bon ton i do think you re right harry and that mean old ought to give you one he the old unhappy wars in which he had been and the yet gone his righteous ways by the cruel kings why if i ve told em once i ve told em a dozen times to get in a side line of for wear and of course here they go and let a cheap like beat them to it and the trade right off em and then harry said � you know how harry is maybe he don t mean to be but he s such a sore head he gave her a hand to rise if you don t mind i think a fellow is awful if a lady goes on a walk with him and she can t trust him and he tries to with her and all i m sure you re highly she snapped and she sprang up without his aid then smiling excessively don t you think fails to appreciate dr s m ray habitually asked her about his window the of the new shoes the best music for the entertainment at the eastern star and he was recognized as a professional authority on the town called about his own clothes she persuaded him not to wear the small bow ties which made him look like an sunday school once she burst out ray i could shake do you know you re too i k you always appreciate people too much you fuss over when she has some crazy theory that we all ought to turn or live on and nuts or something and you listen when harry tries to show off and talk about and and things you know lots better than he does look folks in the eye glare at em talk deep you re the man in town if you only knew it you he could not believe it he kept coming back to her for confirmation he practised and talking deep but he hinted to that when he had tried to harry in the eye harry had inquired what s the matter with you got a pain but afterward harry had asked about in a manner which ray felt was somehow different from his former they were sitting on the yellow satin in die boarding house parlor as ray that he simply wouldn t stand it many more years if harry didn t give him a his hand touched s shoulders x h excuse he pleaded it s an right i think i must be running iq to my room headache she said briefly iv ray and she had stopped in at s for a hot on their way home from the that march evening q do you know that i may not be here next year what do you mean with her fragile narrow nails she smoothed the glass which formed the top of the round table at which they sat she peeped through the glass at the perfume boxes of black main street and gold 