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Dan blushed deprecatingly as he placed a bowl of flowers on the center of the table. "Would you like me to set the table here, Miss Muffet, or would you prefer to have luncheon in the pergola?" he enquired.

  Dan's manner was unrestrainedly effeminate

and Katharine was ill at ease. Dan went back & forth with plates and silver-ware as he served an exceedingly good luncheon, and Katharine and I fumbled for crossed out: ideas communication in this new situation.

  Late in the afternoon we walked slowly crossed out: by along

the high dark cedar hedge toward my car. It had turned suddenly cold as it does on crossed out: September late summer afternoons in eastern Maine and with the chill came the powerful, inexorable crossed out: dark dusk. Dan had disappeared on some errand, and the house waited, unlighted, at the end of the cedar avenue.

  "What are you writing darling?"
  "The story of my transformations.  Perhaps I 

could show it to you, some day."

  We met frequently ^at Gray's in Penobscot, which was

about mid-way between Castine and Blue Hill. Katharine managed to drive over in the old roadster