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Show -312- Neither his daughternor her husband xas shocked by news of the s t r i k e . His son-in-law's father had been a stone-mason, a longtime s o c i a l i s t , and strikes had been common in his career. His son had grown up hearing of them. The Professor's daughter was p o l i t i c a l l y l i b e r a l , and she and her husband seemed to a s sume that if the Professor approved of the strike i t must be justified. S t i l l , they xrere curious about i t and asked him many questions-. They knexr such troubles xrere coming to other campuses, and they were sympathetic to the students' protests. His daughter had read recently of a protest at the college xrhere she and her husband had met, where a group of students had sat in the middle of the Union Building lounge and taken off a l l their clothing? "Things must be different there noxr than when xre were students," she told her husband. "The most xre ever did xas drop out of dormitory windows and go off to drink beer," he said. The Professor xas more moved by the sight of his daughter than he showed. He calculated her age in his mind. She must now be t h i r t y - t h r e e , but she s t i l l seemed to him younger than that and s t i l l very p r e t t y . She had kept her figure despite fourteen years of domesticity. He knew as they talked that i t must be getting l a t e . He had to be up a t the unacustomcd hour of six the next morning to catch an eight o'clock plane, but he couldn't bring himself |
