He'd been told by Michael the price for the weekend was thirty dollars.   George takes thirty dollars out of his wallet.   He gives the money to Howie.   Howie looks a the money.   He says George hasn't stayed the whole weekend. Howie says the weekend includes Friday night.   He says, besides George is leaving early.   Howie says he'll charge George only twenty dollars.   Howie gives ten dollars back go George.   George takes the money.   He's moved by Howie's gesture.   He feels sorry about leaving. He says he might come back another weekend.   He says good-bye to everyone.

20. advice

While saying good-bye to George Risa gives him advice.   She says the house and Robin's Nest aren't for him.   She says the people there are too young.   She says George would enjoy himself more at another settlement.   She says such a settlement is Kismet.   She says there are many divorced people there.   She says they're of George's age.   George doesn't fail to observe the settlement is the one the dumpy woman was going to.

21.   retreat

It's raining during George's going back to the boat.   The rain is light however.   The suitcase seems heavier to George than the day before.   He carries the suitcase in his right hand.   He's wearing shorts as when he arrived.   The suitcase is rubbing against the outside of his right leg.   There's a tear in the side of the suitcase.   The ear is on the side rubbing George's leg.   The edges of the tear are sharp.   They scrape against George's leg. George finds the sensation unpleasant.   He caries the suitcase turned the other way around when he arrived.   He doesn't feel like turning the suitcase around now.   He feels it'd be too much trouble.   Walking along the part of the path surrounded by reeds, he remembers the sensation evoked in him by them the previous night.   He can't recapture the sensation. It's as if he didn't know what it was.   It's as if someone had merely told him about it.   It's as if George had never had this sensation.   Going to the boat terminal George takes a street he'd walked along the night before.   This is the street with the luncheonette and teenager discotheque on it.   The street doesn't look as depressing to George as the night before.   He remembers however the sensation he'd had there.

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