but the prospect of spending nine months refraining from reading and writing made me think of running away.
By late afternoon most of my traveling plans were complete;
when Jem and I raced each other up the sidewalk to meet Atticus coming home from work, I didn’t give him much of a race.
It was our habit to run meet Atticus the moment we saw him round the post office corner in the distance.
Atticus seemed to have forgotten my noontime fall from grace; he was full of questions about school.
My replies were monosyllabic and he did not press me.
Perhaps Calpurnia sensed that my day had been a grim one: she let me watch her fix supper.
“Shut your eyes and open your mouth and I’ll give you a surprise,” she said.
It was not often that she made crackling bread, she said she never had time,
but with both of us at school today had been an easy one for her. She knew I loved crackling bread.
“I missed you today,” she said. “The house got so lonesome ‘long about two o’clock I had to turn on the radio.”
“Why? Jem’n me ain’t ever in the house unless it’s rainin‘.” “I know,” she said, “But one of you’s always in callin‘ distance.”
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