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Show -340- when the Professor and his wife were viewing some home movies they had taken of that v i s i t , they had suddenly realized that this xrould be the last year the grandchildren would be able to swim without wearing s u i t s . They could see in the film what they had not been able to recognize in l i f e , that their oldest granddaughter xas already beginning to develop into a woman. As he spoke with her now, asking her about her school and about her friends, the l i t t l e dog continued to bounce around a t his feet. He knelt down and rubbed the s t i f f hair of the dog's neck. "I believe she remembers me," he told his granddaughter. "She'll remember anyone who gives her a t t e n t i o n , " the g i r l said, laughing. "How about a drink? A martini?" his son-in-law asked. The Professor accepted gratefully. He stopped petting the dog, and, when he stood up, she whined and leaped against his trouser leg. "No, no!" his daughter scolded the dog. "That's enough now!" The l i t t l e dog walked disconsolately to a cushion in a corner of the room and lay on i t . The youmger granddaughter had disappeared into her room, and the son-in-law went off to the kitchen to fix their drinks. " I ' v e got some leftover stew in the fridge," he daughter said. "Would you mind if we had that for dinner?" |
