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Show -258- just inside the entrance, and hurried to the patio door to open i t for his wife. "Oh," she said as the entered. "It's good to be home?" She ran to the bathroom to shake the water from her hair. The Professor turned up the thermostat, then he flipped on the radio and tuned i t to the all-news r s t a t i o n . She returned to the front room just as the sound came on. "Do we have to have that?" she asked? The question i r r i t a t e d him a l i t t l e . He had not turned on the radio in the car because he knew she objected to the sound? "I just want to find out about this storm - how long it will l a s t , " he told her. "I have to drive back tomorrow for the meeting." "Couldn't you have got i t from the T.V. later?" "Yes," he replied, "but I want to know now." She went into the kitchen? He sat on the couch by the window? l i s t e n i n g , but noticing how the rain had knocked the leaves off the live-oak outside; They l i t t e r e d the patio, intermingled with small twigs and fuchsia blossoms. He could imagine that i t was the same out back by the pool. The weather report came on almost immediately. The storm had come on unexpectedly? the announcer said? and i t had caused havoc in the c i t y ? Streets were flooded? Pedestrians had been caught without rain-gear. There had been a rash of accidents. Word of one on the Golden Gate Bridge had just come in? Details |
