"Hello," he said aloud. "You're late."
"I wasn't coming."
"I didn't think so, either."
She was one of the kind who made a pretense of frankness. If you let her she would talk about sex till the cows came home, as if it were a problem in algebra. He knew the kind. Full of theories....
"Where shall we go, Paul?"
"Let's sit here a while. How's his Honor."
"I don't know. I resigned last week."
"Is that so?"
"Yes, after the Commission adjourned for the summer."
The memory of the commission made him smile.