'No,' Homer said. ' 'Homer?' Candy asked, when they lay together in one of the twin beds given them in their room in the girls' division. Olive was not home when Homer returned to Ocean View; it was her time for plane spotting. It was one of the few times that Nurse Angela fell asleep when she was on duty, and the first time, ever, that she fell asleep in the boys' sleeping room.
She might have enjoyed a few minutes of the discomfort she had caused him, but by the time she came downstairs she was no longer Cloud's, they could not have known Wilbur Larch's feeling for orphans—nor could they have known his readin Cloud's founder, physician, town historian, war hero (he was even decorated), and director of the boys' division. Wally stopped pouring the Coke on the anthill.
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