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known the girl by sight, seemed wrong. Sid was not a
sophisticated man. Such an act struck him as
disrespectful. He thought it likely that his feelings were
stronger because he had felt so much hostility to Bobby
Strummer when, two days ago, Kate had told him that
Bobby Strummer had taken her virginity. He had taken
an irrational dislike to Joy, when, at the pool, Kate had
told him that Bobby had looked like a male version of
his sister. And now Joy was dead. He told Kate he felt
ashamed.
Kate, who had been last night far more upset by the
news than Sid, felt differently. She had never known
Joy; for that matter, she had never really known Bobby,
but had simply chosen him as the most likely available
candidate for the function he had been elected to serve.
Yet the act done gave him (and his) a very real if mythic
importance in her life. His being missing, his sister being
dead, her own knowledge of that death when he had
none and might be himself dead—she felt because of
such things she had a responsibility to these two that she
could not fulfill. "Please, Sid," she said. "Let's be close.
I want to, because of what happened. I want things to