Though the heat of the day had passed, Peter was sweating like a horse, and Bobby felt that the world stood upside down. But as he looked around, trying to avoid Peter's eyes, he saw that everything was just the same. There was the lawn that Peter had planted many years ago. There was the furniture he had painted white. There was the place where he had played as a child. Enclosing them all were the high hedges, gone wild and ragged now beyond any hope of ever being trimmed. They were so thick that the garden was as private as a room, so high they seemed to shut out the sky, and old, so old and gnarled about the roots, that they seemed to have been there forever.
Suddenly Peter's furious face collapsed, and he looked as if he were about to
cry.
"I'm ten years older than you," he said. "I'm getting bald and fat, and I'm hard to live with. You won't leave me, will you?"
"Oh, Peter, I'll never leave you."
"You won't change your mind when I get old and fat?" said Peter, starting to shake.
"Oh, never, never," said Bobby. "Oh, I'm so lucky to have you." Almost involuntarily he took a step toward Peter, and for a moment the two men clung to each other in the middle of the boxwood garden, clumsily patting each other and murmuring broken words of love.
Then Peter broke away and began to frown.
. "And now," he said, "we must go say goodbye to mother."
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