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| He fixes another bike tire. |
When my husband suggested that we take a bicycle ride on the trail, I reluctantly closed my book. Green fields and woodland scenes flashed past us as we rode, but I was musing about Henry Crawford, a rakish character who has announced his intention to win Fanny Price's love.
He told his sister a couple of chapters back:
"No, I will not do her any harm, dear little soul! I only want her to look kindly on me, to give me smiles as well as blushes, to keep a chair for me by herself wherever we are, and be all animation when I take it and talk to her; to think as I think, be interested in all my possessions and pleasures, try to keep me longer at Mansfield, and feel when I go away that she shall be never happy again. I want nothing more."I was indignantly evaluating Henry's chances when my bike wheel began to roll sideways in a squishy way. Was it mud?
"I think it's flat."
"No, it can't be flat."
On Monday his tire was flat. On Tuesday my tire was flat. On Thursday his tire was flat. Yesterday mine was flat.
It takes him five minutes to fix it. It takes me 12 hours.
"There isn't any glass; it just seem deflated," he said.
It's a mystery. It's been this way all week.
"Maybe kids are going into the garage and deflating the tires."
"That would be a pretty tame crime."
In real life, we'll just keep our bikes on the porch for awhile.
3 comments:
Heavens. Henry doesn't ask much, does he? Trixie and Honey would out him as a blackguard in 2 shakes of an Irish Setter's tail.
Henry is so charming but so unscrupulous. In a Georgette Heyer novel he'd reform.
Trixie and Honey really would find him out!
I'm so glad you like Trixie Belden. Most people don't know about her and Honey. Nancy Drew seems to have ruled.
Trixie is my heroine (first 6 books only, I'm afraid, before they went downhill with syndicated writers).
I always refer to her as the Thinking Girl's Nancy Drew.
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