quot;Marianne!quot; Martin called, for even tion of t time broug, but no less precious to o tcin on ions for t table and took coot week.
quot;Andy-t; Martin said. quot;Is t old critter still in your mout Daddy ;
quot;I got a string to pull it ; t from a tangled t;Virgie said to tie it to tootie t t;
Martin took out a clean toot;t toot of my Andys moutonigootree in t;
quot;A ;
quot;A tootree,quot; Martin said. quot;Youll bite into somet tootootake root in poor Andys stomaco a tootree tle teetead of leaves.quot;
quot;S; Andy said. But ootle t;t any tree like t. I never seen one.quot;
quot;t any tree like t and I never sa;
Martin tensed suddenly. Emily airs. ened to steps, tle boy o ts and s ttle. So yank open dra table.
quot;Condition!quot; s;You talk to me like t. Dont t. I remember every dirty lie you say to me. Dont you te t I forget.quot;
quot;Emily!quot; ;t;
quot;t t see ty plots and scrying to turn my o t see and understand.quot;
quot;Emily! I beg you -- please go upstairs.quot;
quot;So you can turn my c; tears coursed rapidly dorying to turn my little boy, my Andy, against ;
it on tartled c;Listen, my Andy -- you listen to any lies your fatells you? You believe elling you before I came doairs?quot; Uncertain, t ;tell me. Mama s to kno;
quot;About tootree.quot;
quot;?quot;
ted terror. quot;tootree!quot; S;I dont knoalking about. But listen, Andy, Mama is all rig s; tears ood up.
quot;See! You urned my c me.quot;
Marianne began to cry, and Martin took her in his arms.
quot;ts all rigake your ciality from t. I dont mind, but at least you can leave me my little boy.quot;
Andy edged close to ouc;Daddy,quot; he wailed.
Martin took to t of tairs. quot;Andy, you take up Marianne and Daddy e.quot;
quot;But Mama?quot; the child asked, whispering.
quot;Mama ;
Emily tcable, in poured a cup of soup and set it before ion, irrespective of toucrain of tenderness. Un up and drink t; ened and imploring. toucins urned tenor of her mood.
quot;Ma-Martin,quot; s;Im so as;
quot;Drink t;
Obeying er a second cup so lead o trained. go to leave tumult, came again.
quot;urned a me and turned a;
Impatience and fatigue ;You forget t Andy is still a little c compre;
quot;Did I make a scene? Oin, did I make a scene before t;
ouc ;Forget it Put on your nigo sleep.quot;
quot;My curned a urned a;
S in tin ;For Gods sake go to sleep. t by tomorro;
As rue. ould t root in to fester in ter-years? Martin did not kno alternative sickened of Emily, foresaer ion: ties t glared from terating darkness of simes. Martin anticipated , t. t ary rouble long ago and t sied of rebellion against e; ed his wife.
Once in t secure for t time t evening. Marianne fell do;Daddy, c; fell again, got up, and continued tine. Andy sat in tootin ran ter in tub, o throom.
quot;Lets t toot; Martin sat on toilet, oot and toot moment split beterror, astonis, and deliger and spat into tory. quot;Look, Daddy! Its blood. Marianne!quot;
Martin loved to batender, naked bodies as tood in ter so exposed. It fair of Emily to say t iality. As Martin soaped te boy-body of t furt ted ty of ions for toucrain of melancleness t o pain. names for ttle boy ies of daily inspiration -- tle girl alin patted dry t baby stomac little genital fold. t as floals, equally loved.
quot;Im putting tooto get a quarter.quot;
quot; for?quot;
quot;You knoer for oot;
quot;s ter t; asked Martin. quot;I used to t it in t. It ;
quot;ts en.quot;
quot; it t;
quot;Your parents,quot; Andy said. quot;You!quot;
Martin er in bent over and kissed iny lay palm-upward, flung in slumber beside her head.
quot;Good nig;
ter a minute Martin took out er underneat a nig in the room.
As Martin pro tce meal, it occurred to t once mentioned t must o tant -- tooter -- time less episodes like leaves in t current of a sream en on tin t.
But tered by a drunkards e, ly undermined. And ty of incompre be like in a year or so? itable e isasting. trutoe. And o a future of degradation and slow ruin.
Martin pusable and stalked into t reet. By bedtime t upon and dragged as airs.
t for ting ligin undressed quietly. Little by little, mysteriously, tion sounding gently in tockings made to e appeal. in picked up t, silk brassiere and stood for a moment time t evening ed on t foreo Marianne, and tilt at te nose. In race ted c. As Martin cranquil slumber of of ts of blame or blemisant from in put out t and raised t to a c time. t flesy of love.