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“Did you sleep well last night, Marianne?”

But they knew she hadn’t slept Mother gave Marianne a glass of water to drink and everyone wondered if it would evaporate in her hand Grandma, from her table chair, surveyed Marianne’s fevered eyes “You’re sick, but it’s no microbe,” she said “They couldn’t find it under a microscope”

“What?” said Marianne

“Love is godmother to stupidity,” said father, detachedly

“She’ll be all right,” mother said to father “Girls only seem stupid because when they’re in love they can’t hear”

“It affects the seht into a fellow’s ar woman and let me tell you—”

“Hush” Mother frowned, looking at Marianne

“She can’t hear e’re saying; she’s cataleptic right now”

“He’s co,” whispered mother to father, as if Marianne wasn’t even in the roo in his jalopy”

Father patted his hter like this, Ma, I’ve forgotten I don’t recall she was so foolish One would never know a girl had an ounce of sense at a time like this That’s what fools a irl, she loves me, I think I’lland all the dreaone out of her and her intellect has returned, unpacked, and is hanging up undies all about the house Theinto ropes and lines He finds hi room alone in the midst of a universe, with a honeycomb that has turned into a bear trap, with a butterfly metamorphosed into a wasp He then is or—”

“How you do run on,” criedain? Was it Isak Van Pelt?”

“What? Oh—Isak, yes” Marianne had been roving about her bed all night, so incredible lines, so out at drea moonlit country The sht and the excessive warrees) had kept her awake She looked like a dying h the keyhole

Thisshe had clapped her hands over her head in thejust in time to put on a dress

Grand breakfast Finally she said, “You must eat, child, you ot half a piece down Just then there was a loud honk outside That was Isak! In his jalopy!

“Whoop!” cried Marianne and ran upstairs quickly