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Show -348- "Good," he said, "but t i r i n g ." "I can imagine. Hoxr xrere the children?" They xrere fine he said. It xas like her to ask f i r s t about the children. He told her about the old friends he had met at the University. He xas anxious to see her and t e l l her everything. "I'm anxious to hear," she said. "I don't suppose you feel up to driving doxm here." "Tonight?" "Yes." "No," he told her. "I'm bushed, and I've got a hard day tomorroxr." "When can you come get me - or shall I come up on the bus?" He said he could come get her a f t e r his class, which xas meeting off-campus, at a student's home in Pacifica. Perhaps he could come d i r e c t l y from there if there xrere enough transportation to get a l l the students back into the c i t y . The class would end a t four. He xrould be picketing a l l morning, and he had to see a student about a manuscript at one o'clock. He xas meeting the student a t the restaurant in Stonestoxm. "All r i g h t , " she said. " I ' l l be ready by four." He d i d n ' t remember u n t i l a f t e r his xrife had hung up that she had said nothing about food, and he had forgotten to ask. He xrent into the .kitchen and looked in the refrigerator. He found some swiss cheese and took i t out to have xrith his |