28/43 Light breezes lifted her soft bright hair; the same zephyrs bore from tennis courts on the east the far laughter and calling of the unseen players. There's ten up on every set," he added, "and I've side obligations with Rosalie and Duane. Take you on if you like; odds are on the Pink 'uns. Or I'll get a lump of sugar and we can play 'Fly Loo.'" "No, thanks." A few moments later she said: "Do you know, somehow, recently, the forest world--all this pretty place of lakes and trees--" waving her arm toward the horizon--"seems to be tarnished with the hard living and empty thinking of the people I have brought into it.... |