“No. I don't hardly ever do that. I just drift a little sometimes.”
“How do you mean you drift, papa?”
He looked at her vaguely. “Oh, I don't know. Kind of pictures. They get a little mixed up—old times with times still ahead, like planning what to do, you know. That's as near a nap as I get—when the pictures mix up some. I suppose it's sort of drowsing.”
She took one of his hands and stroked it. “What do you mean when you say you have pictures like 'planning what to do'?” she asked.
“I mean planning what to do when I get out and able to go to work again.”
“But that doesn't need any planning,” Alice said, quickly. “You're going back to your old place at Lamb's, of course.”
Adams closed his eyes again, sighing heavily, but made no other response.
“Why, of COURSE you are!” she cried. “What are you talking about?”
His head turned slowly toward her, revealing the eyes, open in a haggard stare. “I heard you the other night when you came from the party,” he said. “I know what was the matter.”
“Indeed, you don't,” she assured him. “You don't know anything about it, because there wasn't anything the matter at all.”