June Albright's answer when a marina developer offered a hundred dollars for the Panama hat—Sir, that water pulls. Then let it go.

The sentence appears again in Clara Vane's notice among the things the living

cannot stop making: They should have let the hat go. June knew the channel pulled.

No one ordered her. The table clapped once. Enough. The hat was found later in

reeds and returned to the customer by mistake. The customer left it on the table.