I was angry at my sister and at myself for permitting someone to play with reality and common sense and for permitting him to do violence to my feelings, to my certainty in the impossibility and alogicalness of everything that had[…]

Young man, this town is at a bit of an impasse. If you have any suggestion that might help, now would be the time to voice it.

How smal a net may take and meash a hart of gentle kinde

Now he began to move his tongue between his dry lips in little lizardy motions,