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bright shade of pink

"Oh," he said, nodding, "I knohat you're

talking about There was a knothole in the wood that

fell through a while ago"

"A knothole?"

"Yeah," he said "I just noticed it myself the

other day You think I have nothing better to do than

go up there and peep down at you and your

boyfriend?"

"I hope you have better things to do," I said,

"and if you tell me you didn't do it and you don't do it,

I'll believe you," I said

"I just forgot to fix it, that's all," he said "I was

going to plug it up with solue the other

day," he added, looking grateful for being allowed to