I used to try to pray the way he did--asking the Lord to let me do a character bit or something with him.
He had me going all right.

You must 'a' been that way about Baxter.
Sure you were.

When you found she was married and used a double and everything, it was like I'd found this preacher shooting hop or using a double in his pulpit stuff." She was still again, looking back upon this tremendous episode.
"Yes, that's about the way I felt," he told her.

Already his affair with Mrs.Rosenblatt seemed a thing of his childhood.

He was wondering, rather, if the preacher could have been the perfect creature the girl was now picturing him.