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Show -33- was read and approved; but as soon as the governor had fled the crowd began to diminish? moving back to their cars and busses? The Professor and his friend remained for the speeches? which were not memorable? and left as soon as the reading of the letter began? They could read it in tomorrow's newspaper? There was no doubt that the tagend of the crowd that remained would ratify it? That evening the Professor and his wife were invited to a dinner party in San Francisco, given by an attractive young widow? who had recently been hired by the English Department. The Professor was the only person present who had participated in the march? He was asked many questions about it? particularly the questioners wanted to know if the governor really had said what the evening news reported? that the protesters &ta&ir were not "ladies and gentlemen?" Already? the governor's Press Secretary was attempting to cover up, claiming that the statement was simply the kind of joke that any speaker might use to open alsps-pcbsh? One of the guests was a trustee of the University, a lawyer of about forty-five, who exhuded the aura of Ivy League, was known as a liberal? though of the governor's party? "What," he asked the Professor, "did the protest hope to achieve?" This direct, lawyer-like question made the Professor uncomfortable? He didn't pretend? he said? to be able to speak for the protesters? He wanted to say that he had gone there |