FOR just a moment I thought he was kidding me, and the joke wasn’t very funny. Then I looked at him again, and realized that he was perfectly serious. I saw it then; I had asked a deliberately embarrassing question of Mr. Malone, and Dr. Havensson wanted to tell me, briefly and to the point, what he thought of my actions. All of a sudden I felt sick all over. But Augie didn’t look disturbed—either he didn’t know what it was all about, or else he could control himself very well.
FOR I decided to take my medicine. “Lead the way,” I said.
He set a pace up the aisle that was slower than necessary. I knew that he was being considerate and I appreciated it. After we cleared the lobby and got down the front steps, Augie joined the line waiting for taxis. The couple who had just got one motioned
