WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.630 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.630 --> 00:00:02.340 align:middle line:84% "People won't put on the jackets," 00:00:02.340 --> 00:00:03.960 align:middle line:90% Rosamund told the clerk. 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:06.420 align:middle line:84% "We have gobs, and nobody will wear them, 00:00:06.420 --> 00:00:08.880 align:middle line:90% because they make you look fat." 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:10.770 align:middle line:84% She puffed out her cheeks and drew up 00:00:10.770 --> 00:00:13.890 align:middle line:84% her shoulders to show the boy the effect of the bulky life 00:00:13.890 --> 00:00:15.030 align:middle line:90% jackets. 00:00:15.030 --> 00:00:19.140 align:middle line:84% In response, he laughed and flopped his arms up and down. 00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:22.140 align:middle line:84% He can't control himself, Franny thought, 00:00:22.140 --> 00:00:26.520 align:middle line:84% and felt some sympathy for the boy, and despised him a little, 00:00:26.520 --> 00:00:27.780 align:middle line:90% too. 00:00:27.780 --> 00:00:32.610 align:middle line:84% Poor thing, looking silly, meaning to look cool. 00:00:32.610 --> 00:00:35.070 align:middle line:90% She understood that. 00:00:35.070 --> 00:00:39.300 align:middle line:84% So, OK, the clerk said, let me check in back. 00:00:39.300 --> 00:00:42.300 align:middle line:90% We don't do that, Franny. 00:00:42.300 --> 00:00:43.320 align:middle line:90% We don't. 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:43.890 align:middle line:90% Do. 00:00:43.890 --> 00:00:46.200 align:middle line:90% That. 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:48.900 align:middle line:84% As she applied the Pure Pearl, Rosamund 00:00:48.900 --> 00:00:51.960 align:middle line:84% inserted the lipstick between her lips, 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:55.470 align:middle line:84% then rubbed the stick back and forth. 00:00:55.470 --> 00:00:59.100 align:middle line:84% This extravagant method soon wore all of her lipsticks 00:00:59.100 --> 00:01:02.820 align:middle line:84% to an hourglass shape that broke in half. 00:01:02.820 --> 00:01:05.160 align:middle line:84% Still, Rosamund had read in a magazine 00:01:05.160 --> 00:01:07.350 align:middle line:90% column that someone famous-- 00:01:07.350 --> 00:01:11.610 align:middle line:84% Brigitte Bardot?-- applied her lipstick in this way, 00:01:11.610 --> 00:01:15.570 align:middle line:84% and Rosamund put great stock in the advice of such columns. 00:01:15.570 --> 00:01:20.280 align:middle line:84% Knox gelatin made a girl's nails drop-dead glamorous. 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:25.140 align:middle line:84% A cap full of baby oil in the bath left you silky-smooth. 00:01:25.140 --> 00:01:29.190 align:middle line:84% Just the day before, Rosamund had said to Franny, 00:01:29.190 --> 00:01:32.760 align:middle line:84% "Now here's something great I read in that dating column. 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:36.360 align:middle line:84% You're out in the car with a boy, and he gets fresh, OK? 00:01:36.360 --> 00:01:39.000 align:middle line:84% So, you just press your finger to his chin, 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.360 align:middle line:84% and you say, very sweet, no need to be nasty, 00:01:42.360 --> 00:01:45.734 align:middle line:84% shall I drive us home now, or will you?" 00:01:45.734 --> 00:01:48.570 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:48.570 --> 00:01:50.920 align:middle line:84% Franny had been thrilled that Rosamund 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:55.440 align:middle line:84% shared such wisdom with her, and so did not point out 00:01:55.440 --> 00:01:58.110 align:middle line:84% that it belonged to a predictable world, 00:01:58.110 --> 00:02:00.450 align:middle line:84% not the surprising one in which, say, 00:02:00.450 --> 00:02:03.780 align:middle line:84% just the Saturday before, standing in her friend 00:02:03.780 --> 00:02:06.990 align:middle line:84% Christy Strawberry's dock garage, Franny 00:02:06.990 --> 00:02:09.270 align:middle line:84% had found herself perfectly willing 00:02:09.270 --> 00:02:13.590 align:middle line:84% to let a 15-year-old by the name of Bob Prehaskey 00:02:13.590 --> 00:02:17.250 align:middle line:90% press his tongue into her mouth. 00:02:17.250 --> 00:02:19.650 align:middle line:84% Also, Franny did not really want Rosamund 00:02:19.650 --> 00:02:22.200 align:middle line:84% to know that she and Franny did not live 00:02:22.200 --> 00:02:24.490 align:middle line:90% in precisely the same world. 00:02:24.490 --> 00:02:27.420 align:middle line:84% Maybe, if Franny did not acknowledge 00:02:27.420 --> 00:02:31.440 align:middle line:84% the menacing, oyster-colored clouds above her own head, 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:34.410 align:middle line:84% she could edge into that kingdom where 00:02:34.410 --> 00:02:40.230 align:middle line:84% Rosamund held her face tilted up to always sunny skies. 00:02:40.230 --> 00:02:42.780 align:middle line:84% "You like turquoise?" the Marina clerk 00:02:42.780 --> 00:02:44.490 align:middle line:90% called from the back room. 00:02:44.490 --> 00:02:47.160 align:middle line:84% "They're either turquoise or orange." 00:02:47.160 --> 00:02:50.760 align:middle line:84% "Oh, turquoise, please," Rosamund said. 00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:54.180 align:middle line:84% The honking in front of the Marina picked up again. 00:02:54.180 --> 00:02:56.220 align:middle line:90% A crowd of pedestrians-- 00:02:56.220 --> 00:03:00.270 align:middle line:84% two women with strollers, a group of teenagers, little kids 00:03:00.270 --> 00:03:02.490 align:middle line:90% being shepherded by adults-- 00:03:02.490 --> 00:03:05.280 align:middle line:84% had now worked up the nerve to cross the intersection 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:07.650 align:middle line:90% of the four-way. 00:03:07.650 --> 00:03:09.540 align:middle line:84% In winter, on Sundays, there were 00:03:09.540 --> 00:03:13.020 align:middle line:84% times when the Wahls drove the five miles into town 00:03:13.020 --> 00:03:16.050 align:middle line:84% from their own house on the far side of the lake 00:03:16.050 --> 00:03:18.960 align:middle line:84% without encountering a single car. 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:21.960 align:middle line:84% But in July any day of the week, a trip 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:26.070 align:middle line:84% in turned up flocks of cars with out-of-town plates. 00:03:26.070 --> 00:03:29.340 align:middle line:84% Shopping at the supermarket could involve parking a block 00:03:29.340 --> 00:03:30.960 align:middle line:90% or more from the store. 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:33.780 align:middle line:84% And if you drove through town in the evening, 00:03:33.780 --> 00:03:36.990 align:middle line:84% you were bound to see the moth-pale flicker 00:03:36.990 --> 00:03:41.310 align:middle line:84% of little kids in light pajamas that play on the cots 00:03:41.310 --> 00:03:44.790 align:middle line:84% that their parents had set out on the porches and side 00:03:44.790 --> 00:03:48.450 align:middle line:84% yards of crowded rental cottages. 00:03:48.450 --> 00:03:50.850 align:middle line:84% One of that pack of people who now crossed 00:03:50.850 --> 00:03:53.070 align:middle line:84% the lakeside intersection was a clowning 00:03:53.070 --> 00:03:56.970 align:middle line:84% blond-haired boy, shirtless, teenaged, 00:03:56.970 --> 00:04:00.150 align:middle line:84% bright orange flip-flops on his feet. 00:04:00.150 --> 00:04:01.950 align:middle line:90% Franny wanted to see his face. 00:04:01.950 --> 00:04:03.330 align:middle line:90% Was he handsome? 00:04:03.330 --> 00:04:05.640 align:middle line:84% But the boy held his bare arms high, 00:04:05.640 --> 00:04:09.510 align:middle line:84% as if to shield himself from the driver's fury. 00:04:09.510 --> 00:04:14.670 align:middle line:84% And oh, it was only Tim Gleason, the local boy Rosamund 00:04:14.670 --> 00:04:18.360 align:middle line:84% had chosen to be her summer buddy. 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.170 align:middle line:84% Tim Gleason had graduated from the high school, 00:04:21.170 --> 00:04:23.160 align:middle line:84% the Catholic high school, that spring, 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.370 align:middle line:84% then met Rosamund at Lintz, the gift shop where 00:04:26.370 --> 00:04:28.770 align:middle line:90% both held summer jobs. 00:04:28.770 --> 00:04:30.810 align:middle line:84% An attractive boy, Franny supposed, 00:04:30.810 --> 00:04:34.980 align:middle line:84% though Rosamund's buddies did not have to be attractive. 00:04:34.980 --> 00:04:39.750 align:middle line:84% Tim Gleason had silky blond hair, lime-green eyes. 00:04:39.750 --> 00:04:43.440 align:middle line:84% His skin, however, looked a little raw, didn't it? 00:04:43.440 --> 00:04:46.030 align:middle line:84% Puckered from some sort of face scrub 00:04:46.030 --> 00:04:49.620 align:middle line:90% he had used too zealously. 00:04:49.620 --> 00:04:53.070 align:middle line:84% Franny started to raise a hand to wave, then lowered it. 00:04:53.070 --> 00:04:56.670 align:middle line:84% Risky to let Tim Gleason think she dared presume, 00:04:56.670 --> 00:05:02.250 align:middle line:84% that he was her friend as well as Rosamund's. 00:05:02.250 --> 00:05:04.980 align:middle line:84% "There must be some mistake, though. 00:05:04.980 --> 00:05:07.980 align:middle line:84% I mean, the check must have gotten lost in the mail 00:05:07.980 --> 00:05:11.580 align:middle line:90% or something," Rosamund said. 00:05:11.580 --> 00:05:14.130 align:middle line:84% Franny glanced back at the counter. 00:05:14.130 --> 00:05:16.750 align:middle line:84% Rosamund was no longer speaking to the clerk, 00:05:16.750 --> 00:05:21.270 align:middle line:84% but to an older man, his face drawn, apologetic. 00:05:21.270 --> 00:05:24.960 align:middle line:84% "You tell your dad to come in, Miss Wahl," the man said. 00:05:24.960 --> 00:05:27.270 align:middle line:84% "We'll be more than happy to let you charge again, 00:05:27.270 --> 00:05:29.220 align:middle line:90% once he takes care of his end. 00:05:29.220 --> 00:05:33.550 align:middle line:84% Your granddad was always one of my favorite people." 00:05:33.550 --> 00:05:35.730 align:middle line:84% The man smoothed his hands across what was clearly 00:05:35.730 --> 00:05:39.660 align:middle line:84% some sort of ledger, thin hands with wiry black hairs 00:05:39.660 --> 00:05:43.020 align:middle line:90% on the backs and fingers. 00:05:43.020 --> 00:05:44.550 align:middle line:90% Class ring. 00:05:44.550 --> 00:05:46.300 align:middle line:84% If Franny's father had been there, 00:05:46.300 --> 00:05:49.770 align:middle line:84% he would have made them laugh at that man, his flush cheeks, 00:05:49.770 --> 00:05:52.650 align:middle line:90% the ring with the big red stone. 00:05:52.650 --> 00:05:56.850 align:middle line:84% An honest-to-God graduate of Rinky Dink High, her father 00:05:56.850 --> 00:05:58.200 align:middle line:90% would have said. 00:05:58.200 --> 00:06:00.570 align:middle line:90% Something like that. 00:06:00.570 --> 00:06:04.950 align:middle line:84% Eyes wide with fury, Rosamund strode toward Franny. 00:06:04.950 --> 00:06:05.867 align:middle line:90% "What an ass!" 00:06:05.867 --> 00:06:06.450 align:middle line:90% she whispered. 00:06:06.450 --> 00:06:06.990 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:06:06.990 --> 00:06:10.740 align:middle line:84% "Dad's check must have gotten lost in the mail or something, 00:06:10.740 --> 00:06:13.260 align:middle line:84% so that ass is saying the account's overdue, 00:06:13.260 --> 00:06:15.840 align:middle line:90% and we can't charge." 00:06:15.840 --> 00:06:18.270 align:middle line:84% Franny raised and lowered her chin, 00:06:18.270 --> 00:06:21.630 align:middle line:84% serenely, she thought, to acknowledge that she 00:06:21.630 --> 00:06:24.510 align:middle line:90% had heard what Rosamund said. 00:06:24.510 --> 00:06:29.820 align:middle line:84% Peg Wahl, Miss Johnson County of 1940, had trained all three 00:06:29.820 --> 00:06:32.430 align:middle line:84% of her daughters by example and knuckles 00:06:32.430 --> 00:06:37.980 align:middle line:84% in the back to maintain a ramrod perfect posture at all times. 00:06:37.980 --> 00:06:40.560 align:middle line:84% And Franny had found that sometimes, 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:43.320 align:middle line:84% in tandem with the posture, she could 00:06:43.320 --> 00:06:47.130 align:middle line:84% execute an impeccable pivot away from distress. 00:06:47.130 --> 00:06:50.400 align:middle line:84% She could look, oh, as if she'd never even intended 00:06:50.400 --> 00:06:54.240 align:middle line:84% to make a purchase when the lady in the hosiery department 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.120 align:middle line:84% at Drew's announced, "I'm sorry, Miss, 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:59.760 align:middle line:90% but that account is delinquent." 00:06:59.760 --> 00:07:02.520 align:middle line:84% If her father happened to drink too much over Sunday dinner 00:07:02.520 --> 00:07:05.280 align:middle line:84% at the Top Hat club, Franny could slowly 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:08.520 align:middle line:84% rise from the table and walk to the powder room, 00:07:08.520 --> 00:07:13.750 align:middle line:84% and stay there until it was time to go home. 00:07:13.750 --> 00:07:16.320 align:middle line:84% "Here comes Timmy Gleason," Rosamund 00:07:16.320 --> 00:07:17.820 align:middle line:90% pointed out the window. 00:07:17.820 --> 00:07:19.170 align:middle line:90% "He called me before we left. 00:07:19.170 --> 00:07:21.820 align:middle line:90% I'm taking him skiing later." 00:07:21.820 --> 00:07:24.330 align:middle line:84% Rosamund glanced toward the register. 00:07:24.330 --> 00:07:26.820 align:middle line:84% The clerk now stood with back turned, 00:07:26.820 --> 00:07:29.310 align:middle line:90% straightening a row of oars. 00:07:29.310 --> 00:07:32.340 align:middle line:84% His stiff movements hinted that he felt embarrassed 00:07:32.340 --> 00:07:36.690 align:middle line:84% for Rosamund, or himself, or both. 00:07:36.690 --> 00:07:37.830 align:middle line:90% "How humiliating!" 00:07:37.830 --> 00:07:39.406 align:middle line:90% Rosamund whispered. 00:07:39.406 --> 00:07:50.330 align:middle line:90% 00:07:50.330 --> 00:07:54.050 align:middle line:84% But Franny fixed her own attention on Tim Gleason. 00:07:54.050 --> 00:07:56.090 align:middle line:84% Did he check his approaching reflection 00:07:56.090 --> 00:07:57.230 align:middle line:90% in the big Marina window? 00:07:57.230 --> 00:07:59.935 align:middle line:90% 00:07:59.935 --> 00:08:03.420 align:middle line:84% The self-conscious philip of arrangement he gave to his hair 00:08:03.420 --> 00:08:07.770 align:middle line:84% suggested he had yet to spot Rosamund beyond the glass. 00:08:07.770 --> 00:08:11.970 align:middle line:84% "Anyone can see Tim's crazy about you," Franny whispered. 00:08:11.970 --> 00:08:16.050 align:middle line:84% "But it won't be fun if I see," Rosamund said, then 00:08:16.050 --> 00:08:18.210 align:middle line:90% gave Franny a hug and smile. 00:08:18.210 --> 00:08:19.650 align:middle line:90% "Tim's cute, but you wait. 00:08:19.650 --> 00:08:22.470 align:middle line:84% If Turner Haskin comes to visit me this summer, 00:08:22.470 --> 00:08:26.130 align:middle line:84% every girl in Pynch will fall in love with him." 00:08:26.130 --> 00:08:28.530 align:middle line:84% Rosamund raised the back of her hand to her mouth 00:08:28.530 --> 00:08:29.700 align:middle line:90% as she laughed. 00:08:29.700 --> 00:08:31.620 align:middle line:84% She had once explained to Franny how 00:08:31.620 --> 00:08:34.980 align:middle line:84% she had lived with this gesture from a British movie star, 00:08:34.980 --> 00:08:38.580 align:middle line:84% for both its look of elegance and the fact that it concealed 00:08:38.580 --> 00:08:43.919 align:middle line:84% a gray mark left on her right canine by orthodontia. 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.770 align:middle line:84% "And no doubt," Rosamund fluffed her bright hair 00:08:46.770 --> 00:08:48.810 align:middle line:84% with her fingertips, "our crazy sister 00:08:48.810 --> 00:08:53.430 align:middle line:84% will be the first to throw herself at Turner's feet." 00:08:53.430 --> 00:08:56.760 align:middle line:84% The idea of Martie falling for a college friend of Rosamund's 00:08:56.760 --> 00:08:59.800 align:middle line:84% did not strike Franny as particularly funny, 00:08:59.800 --> 00:09:03.960 align:middle line:84% but she still smarted from Rosamund's remark on the dock-- 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:06.300 align:middle line:90% "We don't do that, Franny"-- 00:09:06.300 --> 00:09:10.260 align:middle line:84% and so she laughed along at the image of Martie head 00:09:10.260 --> 00:09:13.740 align:middle line:84% over heels for someone named Turner Haskin. 00:09:13.740 --> 00:09:17.100 align:middle line:84% She followed Rosamund out the Marina door. 00:09:17.100 --> 00:09:19.560 align:middle line:84% She looked at the lake while Rosamund and Tim 00:09:19.560 --> 00:09:21.280 align:middle line:90% Gleason talked. 00:09:21.280 --> 00:09:25.050 align:middle line:84% "I want just one bite of Dairy Queen," Rosamund said. 00:09:25.050 --> 00:09:28.590 align:middle line:84% "So, if I get a cone, will you eat it, Tim?" 00:09:28.590 --> 00:09:31.320 align:middle line:84% Tim Gleason shook a teasing finger at Rosamund. 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:32.430 align:middle line:90% "Just one bite? 00:09:32.430 --> 00:09:33.480 align:middle line:90% I know you. 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:36.700 align:middle line:84% I'll hold the cone, but you'll eat it." 00:09:36.700 --> 00:09:37.440 align:middle line:90% "Meanie!" 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:39.780 align:middle line:84% Rosamund said, but then her laugh 00:09:39.780 --> 00:09:43.590 align:middle line:84% lightened the word, which rose like a bubble, a toy. 00:09:43.590 --> 00:09:46.980 align:middle line:84% And when she looked out over the top of her sunglasses, 00:09:46.980 --> 00:09:50.130 align:middle line:84% Franny recognized the deft parody of the starlet 00:09:50.130 --> 00:09:53.160 align:middle line:90% in the old poster for Lolita. 00:09:53.160 --> 00:09:56.130 align:middle line:84% Tim Gleason laughed at that, too. 00:09:56.130 --> 00:09:58.500 align:middle line:84% Franny's own perverse set of scruples, 00:09:58.500 --> 00:10:01.830 align:middle line:84% or self-consciousness, vanity, whatever it was, 00:10:01.830 --> 00:10:04.800 align:middle line:84% prevented her from buying sunglasses. 00:10:04.800 --> 00:10:06.990 align:middle line:84% Horror at the possibility that someone 00:10:06.990 --> 00:10:09.630 align:middle line:84% might imagine that she, Franny Wahl, 00:10:09.630 --> 00:10:13.470 align:middle line:84% imagined herself resembling any sort of celebrity. 00:10:13.470 --> 00:10:16.890 align:middle line:84% So it was that she had to squint as she looked out 00:10:16.890 --> 00:10:19.050 align:middle line:90% at the glittering lake. 00:10:19.050 --> 00:10:22.680 align:middle line:84% What kind of name was Turner Haskin, anyway? 00:10:22.680 --> 00:10:27.270 align:middle line:84% Beyond a moored houseboat, a sea sailed past. 00:10:27.270 --> 00:10:29.010 align:middle line:84% The crewmen stood on the leeboards, 00:10:29.010 --> 00:10:31.260 align:middle line:84% and even Franny knew that this would not 00:10:31.260 --> 00:10:36.570 align:middle line:84% be necessary if the skipper would let out more sheet. 00:10:36.570 --> 00:10:39.900 align:middle line:84% It would not be good if Martie fell in love with this Turner 00:10:39.900 --> 00:10:44.490 align:middle line:84% Haskin, and Martie did fall in love with some regularity. 00:10:44.490 --> 00:10:48.300 align:middle line:84% The last heartbreak had come via an ROTC member 00:10:48.300 --> 00:10:53.100 align:middle line:84% from Des Moines, funny, handsome in his uniform. 00:10:53.100 --> 00:10:55.590 align:middle line:84% That boyfriend possessed a handful of tricks 00:10:55.590 --> 00:10:58.350 align:middle line:84% with which to entertain a little sister. 00:10:58.350 --> 00:11:01.290 align:middle line:84% He could blow smoke rings through smoke rings, 00:11:01.290 --> 00:11:03.450 align:middle line:84% open his Zippo lighter with a swipe 00:11:03.450 --> 00:11:07.230 align:middle line:84% down the leg of his pants, and then on the upswipe, 00:11:07.230 --> 00:11:09.300 align:middle line:90% strike the thing to flame. 00:11:09.300 --> 00:11:13.800 align:middle line:84% As good as a brother, Franny thought the ROTC member, 00:11:13.800 --> 00:11:17.250 align:middle line:84% until he wrote a lengthy letter to Brick and Peg 00:11:17.250 --> 00:11:19.290 align:middle line:84% to let them know that he would not be 00:11:19.290 --> 00:11:21.400 align:middle line:90% seeing their daughter anymore. 00:11:21.400 --> 00:11:24.300 align:middle line:84% He was sorry to say so, but since starting college 00:11:24.300 --> 00:11:27.240 align:middle line:84% that fall, Martie had begun to swear 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:29.580 align:middle line:84% and smoke and drink, and generally 00:11:29.580 --> 00:11:31.680 align:middle line:90% behave in unladylike manner. 00:11:31.680 --> 00:11:33.270 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:11:33.270 --> 00:11:34.800 align:middle line:90% "Read this!" 00:11:34.800 --> 00:11:39.030 align:middle line:84% Brick had rattled the boy's blue stationery in Franny's face. 00:11:39.030 --> 00:11:42.540 align:middle line:84% "Read this, and see what nice boys think of crude behavior." 00:11:42.540 --> 00:11:44.430 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:11:44.430 --> 00:11:47.100 align:middle line:84% Peg shook and cried over the letter, 00:11:47.100 --> 00:11:51.540 align:middle line:84% but it only made Franny hate the ROTC boy for betraying Martie 00:11:51.540 --> 00:11:53.580 align:middle line:90% so. 00:11:53.580 --> 00:11:56.520 align:middle line:84% Were those little kids sailing past on the sunfish 00:11:56.520 --> 00:11:58.470 align:middle line:90% going to tip over? 00:11:58.470 --> 00:12:00.300 align:middle line:84% They half wanted to, you could tell, 00:12:00.300 --> 00:12:03.540 align:middle line:84% but now a frightened mother shrilled from the Marina dock, 00:12:03.540 --> 00:12:08.610 align:middle line:84% "You kids keep that boat upright, or else!" 00:12:08.610 --> 00:12:10.530 align:middle line:84% What time would that evening's party 00:12:10.530 --> 00:12:12.960 align:middle line:84% begin, Tim Gleason asked Rosamund, 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:16.830 align:middle line:84% and would there be a keg, or should Tim bring beer? 00:12:16.830 --> 00:12:21.120 align:middle line:84% And could some of his buddies come by, too? 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:26.590 align:middle line:84% While Tim and Rosamund chatted on, 00:12:26.590 --> 00:12:30.160 align:middle line:84% Franny pressed her bare toes into the fat slugs of tar 00:12:30.160 --> 00:12:34.090 align:middle line:84% that someone had used to fill a seam where the sidewalk slumped 00:12:34.090 --> 00:12:35.545 align:middle line:90% away from the Marina wall. 00:12:35.545 --> 00:12:39.100 align:middle line:90% 00:12:39.100 --> 00:12:41.020 align:middle line:84% This summer, Franny often did not 00:12:41.020 --> 00:12:43.360 align:middle line:90% know what to do with herself. 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.670 align:middle line:84% She knew only that she did not want 00:12:45.670 --> 00:12:49.290 align:middle line:84% to do what she had done in summers past.