The Falls
“Yet he can’t leave her, he’s her brother and he loves her; he understands how vulnerable she is, in this rough neighborhood, unprotected except for him. The fatherless Burnaby children. Shame, shame. We know your name! (Strange: no one has ever dared tease or taunt Royall Burnaby about his name. Yet he knows that Chandler was once harassed, and that Juliet is now, sometimes.) (Royall is offended thinking about this. His name?) He follows Juliet at a short distance, marveling that she hasn’t glanced around, noticed him. Anyone could approach her: any predator! She crosses a field, crosses railroad tracks and slides down a graveled embankment and comes out at Forty-eighth Street which is partly a residential neighborhood of shabby brick and brownstone rowhouses like theirs, and partly a commercial neighborhood of small stores, taverns, a gas station. He sees, or believes he sees, the shadow-Juliet hovering beside her. And he sees guys watching her. Guys his age, and men. Some of these m...en are old enough to be their father.MoreLess
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