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[for Ground, who suggested the final phrase]

He told me:  "She wears shoes, always, house-shoes
"mostly, because, she says, the floor is cold."

I feared to ask, but did.  "What have you done?"

The raged swelled in him:  he looked like Wagner

at Bayreuth, leading his orchestra

into a tutti fortissimo;

Wagner, whose Ride Of The Valkerie

bestirred the bloodlust of Adolf Hitler.

But in conclusion, my neighbor said,

"Got her a damn rug."