I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.

`` Seems to me I don't remember altering any law about that ''.

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

When I returned to make my report, the Hetman did not remember having sent me on the secret mission.

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

I cannot remember Dr. Gregory's reply, if, indeed, he made one.

After they had paid all his debts and the funeral costs, Ralph and Fred had some fourteen thousand dollars, as I remember, with which to pay the bequests.

I remember him pointing out of the window and saying that he wished he could live to see another spring but that he wouldn't.

I have known some men and women who said that the selves they are told about or even remember seem utter strangers to them now ; ;

I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.

Apropos of what some would call cynicism, I remember an anecdote the source of which I forget.

All I could remember was Billie Dove pasted over the ceiling of my big brother's room.

And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

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

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

I don't know what you're up to, but when Brenner '' --

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

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.

`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.

In fact, I was watching you on that little seventeen-inch screen when you rang my bell.

I was loaded with suds when I ran away, and I haven't had a chance to wash it off.

`` Only when I do it ''.

However, when there's a job to be done, I'm a monstrosity of grim determination, I like to think.

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''

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

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

I said, `` Do we know each other, Miss ''??

Haven't we haven't I seen you.

I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;

I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.

Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.

I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.

`` I guess we both felt it ''.

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

I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.