`` Please sit down , '' she said plaintively . `` I 'm tired . '' The Young Man smiled again at the idea of his sitting down because the Girl was tired . But he sat down , and so did she , on the only dry seat to be found . `` Goodness knows how long this rain will last , '' said the Girl , making herself comfortable and picturesque , `` but I shall stay here until it clears up , if it rains for a week . I will not have my hat spoiled . I suppose I should n't have put it on . Beatrix said it was going to rain . Beatrix is such a horribly good prophet . I detest people who are good prophets , do n't you ? '' `` I think that they are responsible for all the evils that they predict , '' said the Young Man solemnly . `` That is just what I told Beatrix . And I was determined to put on this hat and come out to the park today . I simply had to be alone , and I knew I 'd be alone out here . Everybody else would be at the football game . By the way , why are n't you there ? '' `` I was n't even aware that there was a football game on hand , '' said the Young Man , as if he knew he ought to be ashamed of his ignorance , and was . `` Dear me , '' said the Girl pityingly . `` Where can you have been not to have heard of it ? It 's between the Dalhousie team and the Wanderers .
Almost everybody here is on the XXXXX ' side , because they are Haligonians , but I am not .
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