1 | I appreciate your invitation, but I have to take a rain check. | |
2 | I was restarted from keeping an appointment by a business conference that lasted most of the day. | |
3 | That' s what political risk is, that politicians are slimeballs who will never live up to their part of an agreement. | |
4 | And in the door of the hardware store the man who had come a thousand miles to fill an appointment, uncertain almost to foolishness, with the friend of his youth, smoked his cigar and waited. | |
5 | He had told her once that there was to be no concealment between them, and this thing, coming so brutally to disturb their peace, was nevertheless a case in point. |