H wouldn't take P's Christmas shopping money

It was 8 dollars and 85 cents

P later corrected 65 cents because she spent some

H started crying silently

It was so sudden that H freaked P out

P made him take it and said he could return the money on Friday when he came to her stage act

P put her arms around H's neck

H put his arms around hers too

H got up and decided he should leave

H told P he would call if he had a chance

H escaped

H felt a lot relaxed coming out of pop's apartment

H took the back stairs instead of the elevator

H got tripped over by garbage pails several times

H was glad he didn't meet the new elevator boy again

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H hopped out of bed and jammed his cigarette on his shoe and put the butt inside his pocket

He fanned the cigarette smoke out of the room and regretted he smoked

H grabbed his shoes and hid inside the closet and shut the closet door

Mom came in asking her P was still awake

She said she had seen her table light already

P lied that she couldn't sleep

Mom suspected P caught a cold

Mom also suspected P had smoked

P said she only took one puff

She already threw the butt down the window

Mom wanted to know why she smoked

P lied she couldn't sleep

Mom said if she needed another blanket for the second time

Before she went, mom remembered to ask about the movie P saw that day

P hated that Alice Holmborg's mother kept leaning over to inquire about Alice's grip

Mom asked how's P's lamb chop dinner

Mom reminded P she walked all over Lexington Avenue just to get those lamb chops

P answered Charlene kept breathing onto food and everything

Mom resolved to leave her room by asking did she pray

P replied she prayed in the bathroom

Mom said she's having splitting headache

P reminded her to take aspirins

She went

H came out and needed to go now

P advised he better wait till they were asleep

H said this is the best timing because mom would be in the bathroom and pop would turn on the news

H was so scared he couldn't tie his shoelaces up

In the dark, H wanted to borrow from P

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When H went back D.B.'s room, P had already put off her pillow and turned on the radio

P recalled what a good dancer P was

H asked P to get off bed to dance

P reminded H he was still wearing shoes

H took shoes off and danced 4 numbers with P

P could jitterbug even tango

They stopped because H was already out of breath because he had been smoking heavily

P liked H to feel her forehead

P learnt from Alice Holmborg to meditate and raise own body temperatures

H faked that she succeeded and almost got burnt

P found parents at the front door

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H wanted to call up former English teacher at Elkton Hills, Mr. Antolini

P became a bit happy and told H she's having belching lessons from Phyllis Margulies (3 1 6)

Chap.23

It took Mr.and Mrs. Antolini a while to answer H's phone

Antolini was as young as D.B.

H told him he was dropped out by Pencey

Antolini exclaimed

Antolini had H's full respect for picking up James Castle's corpse and carried it to the infirmary, covering the bleeding dead body with his own coat

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The James Castle incident triggered H's conclusion of what he actually wanted to be for life

H pictured a big rye field with thousands of little kids running amuck inside it

There was not even a single adult to attend to them

H would be the one watching every kid closely

If anyone ran out of boundary, H would run out to catch him in case he fell

Thats the only thing he'd really like to be

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H recalled Castle was a very quiet boy who sat in the farthest corner of the classroom who hardly ever recited or went up to the blackboard

One time Castle showed up in H's can while H was brushing his teeth

Castle wanted to borrow H's turtleneck sweater because his cousin was coming to take him out for a drive

P interrupted that H couldn't name even one thing he actually liked

H said he liked Allie

P protested that Allie was dead already and it didn't count

H argued that dead person could be a million times better than those alive

P asked if there was any profession he'd like to be

H said he was no stuff for a scientist

H said lawyers like their father were nothing but phonies who earn good bucks just to live a kinkier life than others

P didn't answer

H thought of the boy singing the lovely song while keeping his imaginary straight line between the curb and the sidewalk

H asked P if she knew the song If a Body Catch a Body Comin' through the Rye

P corrected H that it was "Meet", not "Catch"

P knew better than H that it was Robert Burn's poem

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P said the problem with H was that he never liked anything that was happening

H objected

P wanted him to at least name one

H was affected by alcohol now that he couldn't even think well

He thought of the two nuns

He thought one particular boy named James Castle at Elkton Hills

One day James Castle called Phil Stabile a conceited bastard

Stabiles friends went into Castle room to ask him to apologize

Castle wouldnt

They started mugging him so bad that Castle jumped out of the window and fell to the ground floor and died

Boys all hurried to see the scene

H hurried with bathrobe on

Castle was wearing the turtleneck sweater H lent him while landing on the ground

Nobody dared to go near

The boys got expelled only

They didn't even go to jail

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H thought of once seniors wouldn't let Robert Ackley join their secret fraternity only because Ackley didn't look tidy enough

When seniors had "bull sessions" in the room, they wouldn't let any outsiders in

H was so yellow not to join their fraternity

H recalled how even Mr. Spencer fawned headmaster Thurmer by letting the latter step in his classroom during history class

Thurmer would intentionally interrupt the class just to crack a lot of corny jokes

Spencer would chuckle like hell on the podium

H recalled the Veteran's Day

All the alumni returned to Pencey with their wives and kids and sauntered around the campus

One particular 50-year-old knocked on H's room to ask if he may go down the can to check his initials some 35 years ago

Stradlater and H walked the gentlemen over to the bathroom to check the initials on every lavatory door

The gentleman checking the initials gave a lot of advice for their future

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H denied he got kicked out of school

P said daddy would gonna kill H

H said he would go to a friend's grandpa ranch in Colorado and be an assistant

P wouldn't listen

H went out to the living room to find any cigarette

H did find them and lighted one and slip a few more into his pocket

Chap. 22

When H returned to P's room, P had taken the pillow off her head

P tried to ostracize H like H's fencing team when H had left all the foils on the subway

H tried to talk about P's novel of Hazel Weatherfield

P reiterated that pop was gonna kill H

H asserted that pop would preach a bit and sent him straight to military school at most

H said he'd be far gone then

H would be in Colorado

P sneered that H couldn't even ride on horseback

H said they'd teach him how to ride in minutes

P was tearing her adhesive tape

H noticed P had a very short haircut

P suspected H flunked every subject

H said he passed English and pinched P on the hip

P tried to hit H's hand

P asked why did H get the axe again

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Ellis Hornborg was the best friend's name

Pop drove to Connecticut so they didn't have to worry about the schedule of the train

Pop installed radio in the car now

Mom wouldnt allow anyone to turn on the radio when jammed in traffic

H took out the broken piece of record

plastered 喝醉了

P put the broken piece of record inside the night table drawer

P treasured the broken piece

H asked if D.B. Was coming back for Christmas

P said he would stay in Hollywood writing plots for his next movie "Annapolis"

H was fed up because H thought D.B. Knew nothing of Annapolis whatsoever

Then H noticed there was adhesive tape on P's. Elbow

P admitted that a boy named Curtis Weintraub pushed her down the stairs in the park

P's girl friend Selma Atterbury put ink onto the boy's windbreaker(風衣）

P hated the boy who stuck around her all day long

H suggested that maybe the boy liked her very much

P didn't want the boy to like het

Suddenly P realized H must have been dropped out of school

P yelled that H was dropped out of school

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