27/41 I--just want--a friend." There was a silence; then he said lightly: "I've felt that way myself. The more friends I make the more solitary I seem to be. Some people are fashioned for a self-imprisonment from which they can't break out, and through which no one can penetrate. But I never thought of you as one of those." "I seem to be at times--not exactly isolated, but unable to get close to--to Kathleen, for example. Do you know, Duane, it might be very good for me to have you to talk to." "People usually like to talk to me. |