When he got back to Baltimore,spring was in the air and the trees were touched with green.Outside the house Dominick was working on Muriel's car,watched by the Butler twins.Macon stopped to talk to them,then went into the house.He walked through the untidy rooms and thought(not for first time)that the word was sharply divided down the middle.Some lived careful lives and some lived careless lives,and everything that happened could be explained by the difference between them.
He decided to take Edward out for a walk,and as he was returning, he saw Alexander ahead of him,on his way home from school.'Wait!' he was crying out.'Wait for me!' The Ebbetts children,some distance away, turned and called something back.