under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.

I said, `` O.K., so now only Blake knows.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

`` Nope, just you, all the time -- sometimes I think it's the only way I'll ever get a decent partner ''.

`` I only said I was hungry.

His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

I was chairman, the only not youthful participant.

The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.

I don't want to leave it ''.

Now dammit, I don't want to go into any more explanations.

`` I want to tell you something Thomas DeMontez Lord.

But, by gosh, I want him and I'm going to have him!!

I just want you to take a message to Diane Molinari.

But I want this to sink in awhile.

Did I want a beer??

`` And I so want the part '', she said.

`` I don't want to be thrown out and I don't think I will.

Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.

`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??

I want you to find Monsieur Prieur at once and give him this money for the boy's purchase.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

You did this you like to hurt to beat people I want to go home ''.

`` But you want a job guaranteed when you return '', I continued my attack.

I want, therefore, to discuss a second and quite different fruit of science, the connection between scientific understanding and fear.

I want to say more about Gabriel's so-called fundamental law.

But first I want to quote him on the relationship that he found between religion and politics in this country and what happened to it.

What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.

' I've found errors and I want you to look them over.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.

Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.

As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.

When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.

You think that Highlands swindled you and I helped 'em do it.

I just do what I'm told, and '' --

`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.

`` So help me, Crouch, I'd like to kill you where you stand, but, before I do, I'm going to hear you admit killing him.

I don't mean to pry, but do they hide the swimsuit with the bubbles??

`` I really do have something important to tell you, Mr. Scott.

I could show what I can do ''.

As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.

`` Only when I do it ''.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

Why she married him I do not know.

`` I know what we can do '', I said.

If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??