I put on a clean collar. I was in our room on the second floor where I could see into the Hubbell's yard, and the ring on the stone pose where they tie up their dog. the dog wasn't there. the collar which I took off had two kinds of laundry mark on the inside, one mark from the laundry where I used to take my shirts and a second mark from the present laundry. Then I washed my hands. The soap was worn down so that there was almost none left. It was a soap that smelled like salad. I turned off the water, but the water still went drip-drip from the faucet. I dried my hands. I hung the towel on the left end of the rod. The ring end of the rod is for Mae. The rod is glass, and some day it will come loose and fall down and break. I shut the bathroom door so that I would not hear the drip-drip of the water from the faucet.