3420. I expected
to get all of the blame, and I had seen Mrs. Hagner and Mrs. Bowlbey watching
us from the third floor windows so I knew I was caught anyway. They were going
to want to know all about the telescope. I was prepared to take all the blame
for the mirror, but about the telescope I was going to deny any knowledge.
3421. Holding
the mirror in my hand I headed for the entrance door, even though there was a
few minutes left before the second bell. I was planning to go directly to Mrs.
Hagner and show her the mirror, apologize, and offer to replace it. I imagined
that she was going to be impressed with my honesty and forthrightness.
3422. Honesty,
forthrightness and stick-to-it-iveness; these were all the things she was
always talking about that had made the country great and that we students were
entirely lacking in. Holding the mirror in my hand, with my arm sort of
stretched out as an offering, I felt that she would see that I was doing my
part to stop the terrible corruption of the country that she was so profoundly
upset about.
3423. But coming
right at me down the hall were the twins, that is to say: Mrs. Hagner, and the Bowlbey
right beside her and even from a distance it was easy to see they were in a
terrific and implacable rage. This was not mirror breaking anger, this was
pornography telescope anger.
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