"You bring a note from your parents, kid?"
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This must be flirting because according to nobody giving a thought to Miles and Lindsay wandering around the Fair unaccompanied, nobody in 1893 would question a young person wandering around by themselves. Unless that nobody were a cop and they saw a great chance at roughing up a kid and hauling them into jail for truancy or loitering or any other trumped up charge you can use as an excuse to bully some citizen you laughed about when you took your oath to "protect" them.
This is when the scene in reception ends. The question is left hanging because it wasn't actually meant to be answered. But it was also asked because the reader has been wondering for twenty-five pages now (and, in my case, nearly three months! I'm a slow reader!) where the parents of all of these children are (except for Chick's dad. We know all about that jerk). This is Pychon playing with us, especially after the last sentence in which he spoke of "not being unmischievous." We all want to see that note!
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