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"Beatty!" said Mildred

"It can't be him"

"He's come back!" she whispered

The front door voiced called again softly "Someone here"

"We won't answer" Montag lay back against the wall and then slowly sank to a crouching position and began to nudge the books, bewilderedly, with his thu and he wanted above all to shove the books up through the ventilator again, but he knew he could not face Beatty again He crouched and then he sat and the voice of the front door spoke again, le sin?" He opened the book halfway and peered at it "We begin by beginning, I guess"

"He'll come in," said Mildred, "and burn us and the books!"

The front door voice faded at last There was a silence Montag felt the presence of so Then the footsteps going away down the walk and over the lawn

"Let's see what this is," said Montag

He spoke the words haltingly and with a terrible self-consciousness He read a dozen pages here or there and came at last to this: " 'It is computed, that eleven thousand persons have at several tis at the smaller end' "

Mildred sat across the hall fro! The Captain was right!"

"Here now," said Montag "We'll start over again, at the beginning"

two

The Sieve and the Sand

They read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house They sat in the hall because the parlor was so ee and yellow confetti and skyrockets and wo one-hundred-pound rabbits fro in at it with a blank expression as Montag paced the floor and cae as many as ten times, aloud

" 'We cannot tell the precisea vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at least one which makes the heart run over' "