“I’ll go, then. In the meantime, perhaps it would be best if you said nothing to Anne’s parents, unless she has already told them. You spoke to her about it, I suppose?”
“Yes. She wants to go. She says I won’t get away without her.”
“Only because you’re her boy friend,” said Francie. “She doesn’t care about flying saucers and galaxies.”
Later, Ron went out on the excuse of claiming one of the free banana splits available to him at Johnson’s Drugstore. Actually he wanted to give his mother and father a chance to talk alone, and he hoped they would talk while he was gone.
would
Almost as soon as he went out the door, George Barron put aside the law briefs and took off his glasses. He looked across the room toward his wife, who was reading on the couch.
“Remember Borneo?” he asked sudd
