In the apple mart, where they were giving the display tables a fresh coat of paint, there were two babies on display—Angel Wells and Florence and Meany Hyde's boy, Pete. The issue of their conversation was John Wilbur's old mattress. There was no ice to put on the abdomen, over the uterus, in case of postpartum hemorrhage. If Wilbur Larch could have heard her, he would have said: 'Just give me the time, lady, and you'll buy more than that.
He rocked back and forth on his knees on the raft until he could feel the ice breaking. If there was still anything sexual between them, Larch knew that it happened randomly, and only out of the keenest boredom. Melony seemed to spend a long time in the bathroom, and Homer Wells was grateful for the time; he needed it—to convince Candy and Angel to go back to work, to leave him alone with Melony. 'Of course there could be a clot in the brain,' said [270] Wilbur Larch.
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