Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Tle youNcER ltrtrs roon $,ould be a.omfottable and well<nlercdrcom if it wele not fot a nunbet of indestructible q)nttadictions to this state of beiic.

It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sitsaround saying, “I drank too much last night.” You mighthave heard it whispered by the parishioners leaving church,heard it from the lips of the priest himself, struggling with hiscassock in the vestiarium, heard it from the golf links and thetennis courts, heard it from the wildlife preserve where theleader of the Audubon group was suffering from a terriblehangover. “I drank too much,” said Donald Westerhazy

She’s got to be into everything,” the man said. “If shedon’t get there before the dust settles, you can bet she’s dead, that’s all. She’ll want to know allyour business. I can stand him real good,” he had said, “but me nor my wife neither could havestood that woman one more minute on this place.” That had put Mrs. Hopewell off for a fewdays.

Mrs. Hopewell liked to tell people that Glynese and Carramae were two of the finest girls sheknew and that Mrs. Freeman was a lady and that she was never ashamed to take her anywhereor introduce her to anybody they might meet. Then she would tell how she had happened tohire the Freemans in the first place and how they were a godsend to her and how she had hadthem four years

She could not keep anything on her stomach. Every morning Mrs. Freeman toldMrs. Hopewell how many times she had vomited since the last report

Her eyes never swerved to left or rightbut turned as the story turned as if they followed a yellow line down the center of it.

Her forward expressionwas steady and driving like the advance of a heavy truck

BESIDES the neutral expression that she wore when she was alone, Mrs. Freeman had twoothers, forward and reverse, that she used for all her human dealings