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with shock and terror, for he had never dreamed that a
woman so modern as to leap into the sack (as he
termed it, though it had actually been moss and pine
needles) with a stranger could also be a woman so
traditional as to assume that her doing so forever
abnegated her marriage vows by committing her heart
and hand to this stranger 'til loss of love did them part.
Awestruck by his attraction and her absoluteness,
his grin had turned to stone, and then the stone had
crumbled. The poet was stunned into silence by her
announcement that she planned to go away with him, as
she termed it, then and there, or wherever he chose.
And so this easy lay led him away as if his accidental
plunge into the Rampage had proved a baptism, and he
—driven through the night in his still-damp clothes—a
convert to her newborn faith.
Back in Dingley Falls at the academy, Walter Saar
was awake with an old desire.
In the trailer park, Chin Lam (Mrs. Maynard
Henry), whose husband had been arrested by Hawk
Haig, was awake because she was frightened to sleep
alone. On Cromwell Hill Road a cat with one eye