:54:11
- How about some melba toast?
- Sure.
:54:31
I'd have expected you to backflip
down the hall after such good news.
:54:39
But you're so quiet.
:54:45
Today I think I will give you
the day off from studying.
:54:50
How's that?
:54:54
How about one of my stories instead?
:55:02
- I still have a few good ones left.
- I don't care.
:55:07
I could tell you about
the special soap we made.
:55:13
There's the story
of how I escaped from Berlin -
:55:17
- after I foolishly went back.
That was a close one.
:55:25
No, none of these.
You don't seem to be in the mood.
:55:32
Today, I will tell you the story -
:55:35
- of an old man who was afraid.
:55:40
He was afraid
of a certain young boy -
:55:44
- who was,
in a queer way, his friend.
:55:48
The boy proved
to be a very good student.
:55:52
But not perhaps in quite the way -
:55:56
- his mother
and his teachers had envisioned.