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"When I'm gone you'll be happy, you and your friends," he said. "You will be able to take yourselves seriously again and do all your artistic work. I'm just a disturbance in your summer."
I assured him of the contrary, that without him I would pine away, and yet I knew there was truth in what he said. With him I thought only of the present, I lived from day to day. When he was gone I worried about the life ahead for which I must be prepared. "Work is the only thing that makes one happy," my mother always said, and inspired by Betsy, we had all taken ourselves seriously that summer until Jean came.
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