” “But didn’t you say some more about that ball?” “I said everything I could say as soon as I realized she was trying to avoid the topic. She had, by the magic of recollection, set the picture of the typhoon between herself and her table companions: the terrible rollers thundering on the white shore, the deafening bellow of the wind, the bending and snapping palms, the thatches of the native huts scattering inland, the blur of sand dust, and those two outcasts defying the elements. "No, no!" With a gesture, fierce and intolerant, she seized the Bible and thrust it out of sight, into the drawer. ‘Seems quiet enough,’ observed the junior officer, his gaze raking the shuttered windows of the building’s grey stone frontage. But then—Oh! Madam, there are moments—moments of darkness, which overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the poor houseless wretches who traverse the streets, when reason is well-nigh benighted; when the horrible promptings of despair can, alone, be listened to; and when vice itself assumes the aspect of virtue. I saw an 86 ad in the back of a comic book that advertised instructions on how to create your own hovercraft, right between the page of Sea Monkeys and the order form for stuff like Whoopee cushions and plastic barf. Then she would write and tell her father what she had done, and put their relationship on a new footing. ‘Believe it or not, I do it for pleasure.
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