we're human. I remember the first time I forgot my friend after he died. I met a fellah and we went to the movies; it was a Harold Lloyd. Laugh! Oh, boy! And I felt kinda crazy about this other fellah, too; he was a nice kid. I never thought about my friend at all until the orchestra begun to play 'Somewhere a Voice Is Calling,' and that made me think of him— Well, anyway, I mean things get better; you think you're through, but things kinda turn up"
"Do they, Opal?"
He heard in her words the eternal promise; he believed and was comforted. Kate heard him whistling in the bathroom as he got ready for supper. But, holding the towel, he stopped, forgetting to dry his face, forgetting to move, lost in sudden longing for Evelyn, violent, terrible,
