Just this early morning, as we lay on the beach watching the sun chase away stars, I turned to her and mentioned that this is going to be a big, big ulcer-giving job, full of headaches and such.
"No, it isn't," she replied.
"Don't minimize what is imminent," I said. "It makes for incompatibility."
"None of that either."
"You are too optimistic, Cassandra."
"No. I told you that you were heading into danger before, and you were, but you didn't believe me then. This time I feel that things should go well. That's all."
"Granting your accuracy in the past, I still feel you are underestimating that which lies before us."
She rose and stamped her foot.
"You never believe me!"
"Of course I do. It just happens that this time you're wrong, dear."
She swam away then, my mad mermaid, out into the dark waters. After a time she came swimming back.
"Okay," she said, smiling, shaking down gentle rains from her hair. "Sure."
I caught her ankle, pulled her down beside me and began tickling her.
"Stop that!"
"Hey, I believe you, Cassandra! Really! Hear that? Oh, how about that? I really believe you. Damn! You sure are right!"
"You are a smart-alecky kallikanz-Ouch!"
And she was lovely by the seaside, so I held her in the wet, till the day was all around us, feeling good.
Which is a nice place to end a story, sic:.
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