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“But what good does it do to have him neu-tered if you’re just going to put him out? He’ll just have to stay here until I can place him.”

This is the woman who praises him for un-derstanding the necessity of neutering strays so that they won’t produce huge families of strays. It’s too late to argue. He changes the subject.

“You work in the library, right?”

“Yes, in Reference.”

“Oh, I didn’t know you worked in Refer-ence. Do you know the Director?”

“Not personally, why?”

“Does she have something against the read-ing program?”

“I don’t know. You’d have to ask her. Why do you ask?”

“I’m having trouble with the keys.” He tells her the story about the room keys and how he has to jump through hoops to get them and how he has to stand in line.

“I’ve never seen you come in for a key,” she says, a puzzled look on her face.

“You must work the desk when I don’t need to.”

“Oh,” she says. “We don’t appreciate the keys either.”

“What do you mean?”