“I
like it. Very much. I’ll take it.”
“Would you have references?”
“I’m awfully sorry, but I haven’t.
I just arrived in New York, and don’t know a soul. Except you.”
I smiled but she didn’t smile back.
She stood hesitating, and I said, “It’s true that I’m an escaped
convict, an active counterfeiter, and occasional murderer. And I howl during the full of the moon. But I’m neat.”
“In that case, welcome.”
(from Time and
Again by Jack Finney)
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