“No.”
“How did you know I was here?”
“I didn’t. Only that you said you would be,” she answered.
“That meant last Thursday,” he said.
“Do you mean to annoy me like this all summer?”
“As long as you will come to talk with me,” he said.
“Or until I say positively I won’t come to the party. That’s what you said before.”
“Will you come?” he asked.
So they went on in a spirit of banter, touching invisible strings, attending less and less to the meaning of words and more to the language of sound.
Scientists ask: Is there such a thing as biactinism?—vital animal magnetism, producing an effect apart from itself with no mechanical means of transmission? Is personality radio-active? Does the human organism possess the property of radiating an influence capable of acting at a distance upon another human organism? Ask youth.