He was unpacking too, though as coyly and delayingly as he had undressed that day at the Highgate Ponds.

I'm the emcee for tonight, he proclaimed. I'll announce your program.

And what if your daughter admires him even more / And comes to choose him for her life's companion, / Not the drab complainer she ended up with.

The third, entitled “The Thing Happens,” deals with the discovery, three hundred years hence, of certain persons who are tricentenarians surviving from our own time.