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Show -158- haired coed who had been in his office the last time students had tried to shut down classes. Recalling her fear, he hoped not. Somehox*, being with someone that timid increased your own sense of responsibility and made you fearful. As it turned out? he did not have it with her? He had it with a male student who was writing arnovel. He remembered now that he had a rather long portion of that manuscript to read before he went to the campus tomorrow? As he went back downstairs to his study to get the manuscript, he glanced out the window and saw that the dog, just a moment before asleep on the patio? had sensed his movement inside the house and followed him around to the back? was standing on the walk between the pool and the run, staring up at him, her tail wagging? He walked through the dressing room, opened the door and let her in. She followed him back into his study and lay down near the stairway? while he searched through the materials on his desk for the student's work. When he found it and began to walk toward the stairs, the dog got to her feet and started up ahead of him, remembered suddenly that he couldn't open the door with her there, turned and came back, then followed at his heels as he ascended and opened the door. Had his wife been home? he would have done his reading downstairs? but with the house empty? he had decided to do it sitting on the couch in the front room? which was more comfortable than the second-hand divan he had bought for his study. |