I was surprised how he acted.

Nor did I use crickets, because of the way they acted about the hook.

And I came up and my old man acted just as though the two of them weren’t standing there and said, “Want an ice, Joe?”

So her room was abandoned to insensitive guests, and they dressed and slept in her husband’s chamber, which Gloria considered somehow “good,” as though Anthony’s presence there had acted as exterminator of any uneasy shadows of the past that might have hovered about its walls.