if you're having such a goddam rotten time. I don't know what you think you are, ... predictions?" "No, a dream." She looked at him and laughed. "I'd just as ... something." They both stood silent a moment. The clubhouse shined a distant, unsure light on the trees. ...

or did something wrong. My mother didn't know, or didn't care. I have never been ... Cobb's, she told me. Other women looked at her funny. I knew what other women meant by how they looked at ... her. They regarded her with awe and worry, at once. But I didn't say that. I didn't ...

of her eye, she sees Robin step forward too. Before they can reach him, his mother appears. They know ... company. Behind her she hears Robin cry out as if she saw something coming too. When Sarah turns she sees ... she is the mother because she is holding in her hand a plastic pirate ship. Her pink sundress is too ...

didn't want to hear his mother's answers. Last Christmas he'd asked for a puppy and ... that was exactly why his mother said no. Something would happen to the dog. It would get sick. It would ... so much energy left over from the party, from all the ice cream and cake!-but he wanted to hear what ...

dancing?" "Did I say that? Did you hear me say that, Bonnie? Of course not?" Madame laughs ... girls keep on grow­ ing until they're eighteen!" We all close our imaginations, not ... "My dear." Madame takes my mother's hand. She clears her throat of something worse. ...