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Show -247- "Do you think they xrill go soon?" The Professor said he didn't knoxr. "I sure hope they go soon." The Professor laughed. "I do too," he said. When he returned to the front room, his daughter and her husband were exchanging small gifts with their friends. This seemed to be the signal for departure. The couple xrho had arrived f i r s t made the i n i t i a l gesture. "You sure you wouldn't like a drink f i r s t ? " the Son-in-law asked them. They said they xrouldn't. The actor, xrhen he paused to shake hands xrith the Professor, said he'd hsxx l i k e to talk xrith him sometime about the differences betxrcen comedy and tragedy. The Professor said it would be a pleasure. He meant i t , and he beliyed-the actor xas not simply making a pleasantry by his statement. The Canadian, before ho l e f t , xrished the Professor good luck in the xreeks ahead a t the University. The Professor did not knoxr xrhether or not this xas a sincere wish. The children, their ears a l e r t for the sounds of departure, had come out of t h e i r room to participate in the leave taking. The dog, too, got up from where he had been lying in a corner, and seemed to be helping speed the guests on their xay. "Look a t t h i s , " the Canadian said, laughing a t the head of the s t a i r s . He put out his hand to the dog. |
