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into his hand.
"Oh," he noticed. "Where's Kate?"
"Is that a joke? It's only nine o'clock. All I ask of
Kate and Emerald is that they wake up in time for
dinner. If she came home at all. Do you want to know
what I think? Kate's going to marry Sidney Blossom."
"Don't be silly."
"All right."
Folding his napkin and kissing his wife, Ransom
rose from the table. He was dressed in a gray linen suit
with a yellow shirt and a gray tie with tiny red crossed
golf clubs on it that Arthur Abernathy had given him last
Christmas, when Emerald had given him an oil painting
of herself done from one of his photographs, and Priss
had given him a five-band portable radio for the boat, a
digital watch pen, a monogrammed robe, a nautical
brass shoe horn, a gold-plated badger shaving brush,
and a case of Scotch; and Kate had given him a baby
cherry tree for his garden (with a card saying, "Daddy,
Don't read anything into it! Kate"), three books on the
forced resignation of the former president, and a pair of
boxer shorts on which were printed Wall Street ticker