"It shouldn't make you so serious. I don't want to upset you. You're going through a great trial."
She was trying to smile. "But you did. Only I don't know what to do about it."
On the way from the bus stop to her apartment, she said, "I'm not going to the convention with you.
I called Professor Nemur this morning and told him. There will be a lot for you to do there.
Interesting people—the excitement of the spotlight for a while. I don't want to be in the way—"
"Alice—" "—and no matter what you say about it now, I know that's how I'm going to feel,
so if you don't mind, I'll hang on to my splintering ego—thank you."
"But you're making more of this than it is. I'm sure if you'll just—" "You know? You're sure?"
She turned and glared at me on the front steps of her apartment building.
"Oh, how insufferable you've become. How do you know what I feel? You take liberties with other people's minds.
You can't tell how I feel or what I feel or why I feel."
She started inside and then she looked back at me, her voice shaky: "I'll be here when you get back.
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