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“Oh, go to a show maybe”

“After we rest awhile”

“You’re not tired!”

“No, no, no,” she cried, hastily “You?”

“No, no!” he said, quickly

They sat down and felt the coht, glaring warm day

“I think I’ll just loosen my shoelaces a bit,” he said “Just untie the knots a moment”

“I think I’ll do the same”

They loosened the knots and the laces in their shoes

“Might as well get our hats off!”

Sitting there, they removed their hats

He looked over at her and thought: forty-five years Married to her forty-five years Why, I can rememberand that time in Mills Valleyand then there was that other dayforty years ago we drove toyesyes His head shook A long time

“Why don’t you take off your tie?” she suggested

“Think I should, if we’re going right out again?” he said

“Just for a moment”