12/17 Your best dodge is to lie low for a bit, and keep out of everybody's way." "I never meant--" "Of course you didn't. You can't help being an ass, but don't swagger or brag about it. Go easy--and, by the way, whatever you do, forget you're an exhibitioner. It's not your fault, I know, but it's a sort of thing to be lived down up here. Be nobody, that's the rule! then you'll worry through." "But _you_ were an exhibitioner, Tempest," I suggested, "weren't you ?" "Yes, but I kept it dark. |