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     From the edge of the parking lot, Brewer is spread out like a carpet, its flowerpot red going dusty. Some lights are already turned on. The great neon sunflower at the center of the city looks small as a daisy. Now the buy cheap uggs online low clouds are pink but up above, high in the dome, tails of cirrus still hang pale and pure. As he starts down the steps he wonders, Would she have? Lucy. Are ministers' wives frigid? Like du Ponts.
     He goes down the mountainside on the flight of log stairs and through the park, where some people are still playing tennis, and down Weiser Street. He puts his coat back on and walks up Summer. His heart is ugg boots for girls murmuring in suspense but it is in the center of his chest. That lopsided kink about Becky is gone, he has put her in Heaven, he felt her go. If Janice had felt it he would have stayed. Or would he? The outer door is open and an old lady in a Polish sort of kerchief is coming mumbling out of F. X. Pelligrini's door. He rings Ruth's bell.
     The buzzer answers and he quickly snaps open discount ugg boots the inner door and starts up the steps. Ruth comes to the banister and looks down and says, "Go away."
     "Huh? How'd you know it was me?"
     "Go back to your wife."
     "I can't. I just left her."
     He has climbed to the step next to the top one, and their faces are on a level. "You're always leaving her," she says.
     "No, this time it's different. It's really bad."
     "You're bad all around. You're bad with me, too."
     "Why?" He has come ugg boots australia up the last step and stands there a yard away from her, excited and helpless. He thought when he saw her, instnct would tell him what to do but in a way it's all new, though it's only been a few weeks. She is changed, graver in her motions and thicker in the waist. The blue of her eyes is no longer blank.