1<br >(~ladvs Reid， who is of :1 fairh- advanced，a，v~c， though not so<br >much furthcr ;~dvanccd than I， has been looking through her<br >father s papcrs and throwing some of thcm away-most of<br >thcm， 1 suppose， bccaqsc that s what happens xvhcn afternoons<br >grow long. In his daybook she found thc cntry， ".larricd to-<br >day，" then "l，oafcd toda，v，" and thc ncxt day hc worked tcn<br >hours.<br > So when we talk togcthcr x~c share a long vicw that will<br >soon be cvcrvbodv s or nobodv s dim rccord-misundcrstood，<br >of course. Pcrhaps tlmt s bcst， for thcn our prciudiccs and cx-<br >pcricnccs will be laid away intact.<br > Gladvs has bccn rigorously punctual all her tifc， and so have<br >I. Now she s pushing cighty-onc， she sas， and I m pushing<br >seventy-eight but no harder than 1 can help. 1 like too much<br >the goldcn sunlight of Scptcmbcr and Octobcr， and 1 count on<br > Cill ]" morning x~allis to thc t:Iarbor l，ight with Graham， who<br >is a collic two and a half vcars old.<br > (;ladvs Rcid s father was Benjamin ~V. Pcasc of Tom s<br >Ncck Farm on Chappaquiddick， as handsome a man :is I ever<br > saw， who spokc with good scnsc at town meeting and was as<br >