{"id":"01KG076GRABRXJPMDN1XABXP15","cid":"bafkreifqxuby65wd6wid3uz5ulwzs6bt5zz4yul4jghgjuyu5urpaiv2si","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":1472,"extracted_at":"2026-01-27T17:14:39.506Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 4","source_file":"01KFYTG9MG93RTB6YAW34V48XG","start_line":1438,"text":"  1377\t\"Would you care for a cocktail?\" I asked her. I was feeling in the mood for one\n  1378\tmyself. \"We can go in the club car. All right?\"\n  1379\t\"Dear, are you allowed to order drinks?\" she asked me. Not snotty, though. She\n  1380\twas too charming and all to be snotty.\n  1381\t\"Well, no, not exactly, but I can usually get them on account of my heighth,\" I\n  1382\tsaid. \"And I have quite a bit of gray hair.\" I turned sideways and showed her my gray\n\n<!-- [Page 32](arke:01KFYTAC7C8EABYQWEMN8WCQ84) -->\n  1383\thair. It fascinated hell out of her. \"C'mon, join me, why don't you?\" I said. I'd've enjoyed\n  1384\thaving her.\n  1385\t\"I really don't think I'd better. Thank you so much, though, dear,\" she said.\n  1386\t\"Anyway, the club car's most likely closed. It's quite late, you know.\" She was right. I'd\n  1387\tforgotten all about what time it was.\n  1388\tThen she looked at me and asked me what I was afraid she was going to ask me.\n  1389\t\"Ernest wrote that he'd be home on Wednesday, that Christmas vacation would start on\n  1390\tWednesday,\" she said. \"I hope you weren't called home suddenly because of illness in the\n  1391\tfamily.\" She really looked worried about it. She wasn't just being nosy, you could tell.\n  1392\t\"No, everybody's fine at home,\" I said. \"It's me. I have to have this operation.\"\n  1393\t\"Oh! I'm so sorry,\" she said. She really was, too. I was right away sorry I'd said it,\n  1394\tbut it was too late.\n  1395\t\"It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.\"\n  1396\t\"Oh, no!\" She put her hand up to her mouth and all. \"Oh, I'll be all right and\n  1397\teverything! It's right near the outside. And it's a very tiny one. They can take it out in\n  1398\tabout two minutes.\"\n  1399\tThen I started reading this timetable I had in my pocket. Just to stop lying. Once I\n  1400\tget started, I can go on for hours if I feel like it. No kidding. Hours.\n  1401\tWe didn't talk too much after that. She started reading this Vogue she had with\n  1402\ther, and I looked out the window for a while. She got off at Newark. She wished me a lot\n  1403\tof luck with the operation and all. She kept calling me Rudolf. Then she invited me to\n  1404\tvisit Ernie during the summer, at Gloucester, Massachusetts. She said their house was\n  1405\tright on the beach, and they had a tennis court and all, but I just thanked her and told her I\n  1406\twas going to South America with my grandmother. Which was really a hot one, because\n  1407\tmy grandmother hardly ever even goes out of the house, except maybe to go to a goddam\n  1408\tmatinee or something. But I wouldn't visit that sonuvabitch Morrow for all the dough in\n  1409\tthe world, even if I was desperate.","title":"Chunk 4"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG072GGPGKVJA9S436CAPW13","peer_label":"Chapter 8","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-27T17:14:40.089Z","ts":"2026-01-27T17:14:40.089Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}