The Exorcist

to go?'

    Dyer had his hands in his pockets, 'What's playing?'

    'Wuthering Heights'

    'Who's in it?'

    'Heathcliff, Jackie Gleason, and in the role Cathrine Earnshaw, Lucille Ball. You're happy?'

    'I've seen it,' said Dyer without expression.

    Kinderman stared limply for a moment. Looked away. 'Another one,' he murmured. Then he stepped to the sidewalk, hooked an arm through Dyer's and slowly started walking him down the street. 'I'm reminded of a line in the film Casablanca,' he said fondly. 'At the end Humphrey Bogart says to Claude Rains: 'Louie---I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.' '

    'You know, you look a little bit like Bogart.'

    'You noticed.'

    In forgetting, they were trying to remember.

The End