25/29 It seemed to strike him pretty hard, for he gazed with all his eyes at one side of it, as he approached, and then, as he passed it, he actually pulled up to read the other side. "All right! All right!" Euphemia didn't like the way he said "all right." It seemed to her, she said, as if he intended to do something which would be all right for him, but not at all so for us. I saw she was nervous about it, for that evening she began to ask me questions about the traveling propensities of soap-makers, upholsterers, and dentists. "I will take the sign down in the morning. We are here to enjoy ourselves, and not to be worried." "And yet," said she, "it would worry me to think that that driver frightened us into taking down the sign. |