“Mrs. Worthington is very nice.” (I could have guessed that! thought Wilbur Larch.) “She knows everything about apples. “Candy’s father is very nice, too,” Homer Wells wrote to Dr. Larch. “He takes me out on his lobster boat, and he is teaching me how an engine works.” (Do you wear a life jacket on the lobster boat? Wilbur Larch wanted to know. You think an engine is so special? I could teach you how the heart works, thought Wilbur Larch—his own heart teaching him about itself, and much more than its function as a muscle.)
