Everybody who plays golf is well aware that on some
days he playsbetter than on others. We ought to know them and they ought toknow
us.
I give the next calculation of even more acute
current interest.
Nor is the change limited to these externals only.
I didnt know, I said, that you were in the habit of walking outhere?
Papa and Uncle Peter were there, but I dont think
they saw us. That isto say, after I had hit, a ball was found in the can and my
ballwas not found. No, he answered, pausing to sharpen his pencil, I was at
thehockey game. I saw one hat of Valencia blue felt that was just a dream. And
whenever I do so Jones always says, You movedyour head. My husband, as you know, is
terriblyenergetic; I often call him a dynamo.
In my time, of course, the game was far
moreexciting.
But the two teams wore
bright-coloredsweaters.
No doubt it sounds brutal, but really whenyou are
there you get so excited that you forget.
I thought, he continued, that Id trace it down from
early timesand show the way it has come on.
Then I realized that of course he was Henry
Williams.
He would never stop me in the rain, or the sleet.
So then I knew that Robinson had got to the stage of looking up theencyclopedia. In
other words, all he has to do is to keep right on. Here I must admit that my
conclusions were haltingand more slowly formed.
Jack and Bruce had to hold me by theankles or I
might have fallen. They got me stung to speak at thiscursed banquet to-night on Our
Country. And meantime I must keep a ten-dollar bill warm in my pocket
forhim.
I thought, he continued, that Id trace it down from
early timesand show the way it has come on.
Very shortly afterwards, also, I wasable to reason
that the mans name was Henry Williams.
Then I realized that of course he was Henry
Williams.
Not for himto find the company dull, or the music
poor, or the play inferior. The thing is a simple instance of what is called the
mathematicaltheory of probability.
He spoke with an affectation of indifference, but I
knew what hewas feeling underneath.
Any room is charmingto him, where there is a free
seat, and the chance of lingering toa meal.
Im just taking Bessie and the kids up there for a
fortnight. And wherever he is, whatever he regards, always the sameenthusiastic
appreciation.