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Show -241- "We've got txro hours," he said. Dinner shouldn't take longer than an hour. I ' l l clean up. I can do i t in half an hour. Easy." The phonograph xas playing Heark the Herald Angels Sing. The Professor took a t a s t e of his drink. He xas glad they xrould be eating soon. He had made up his mind before ho came to have only txro drinks before dinner. Bo had brought txro bottles of Krug Cabernet to have xrith the meal, and there xrould, he know, be more drinking l a t e r . Be l i t a cigarette and settled back into his chair. The children xrere noxr singing along xrith the recording.. His xrife and daughter xrere talking together a t the table, but he could not hear xrhat they xrere saying over the music. His son-in-laxr sat on the floor xrith his back against the x a l l , his long legs extended before him. When the music stopped, the Professor's daughter stood up and announced that she was going to put the dinner on. Her mother got up a l s o , but her daughter xaved her back into her seat. "I can do i t , " she said. " I t ' s a l l ready- I just have to bring i t on." "I could toss the salad," her mother said. "I'm not having a tossed salad," she said. "I'm having your holiday f r u i t salad - apple, celery, and nut." "Let me know xrhen you want the xrine opened," the Professor said. -• "I w i l l , " she replied. |