Evelyn Discovered
Failure is imminent, and Robert was bereft of hope. It was now Friday. Despite
his abstemious and parsimonious way of living, his money had been reduced to a
mere pittance. A perverse impulse brought him to the section where young 
people in strange clothing and with uncouth manners made him recoil in 
unmitigated disgust. He had never been an courant with the "hippies" and 
"punks." He was always fastidious about proper dress and behavior. A moment
later he say her! Evelyn! She was sitting at a table in a coffee shop, surrounded
by a coterie of the most noisome individuals he had ever seen. Evelyn was not
incongruous, for she herself was unkempt. So this was her new habitat! At that
instant Robert knew as an incontrovertible fact that he had lost her. With
a grimace, he turned and walked, a doleful and melancholy figure, toward to
the bus depot and home.


lily-livered--cowardly.
The lily-livered gangster got cold feet and spilled the beans.