"The secretary smiled efficiently and slid a clipboard across the counter. Neely printed his name, the time, and the date, and put down that he was visiting Bing Albritton, the longtime girls' basketball coach. The secretary examined the form, did not recognize his face or name, and finally said, "He's probably in the gym." The other lady in the administration office glanced up, and she too failed to recognize Neely Creenshaw.
And that was fine with him"(70).
The book is still kind of slow. It is still telling the past of Neely and his football coach, Rake. I just learned why Rake was fired two years before he got cancer. His football team wasn't very good, so he made them run two miles, and then ran bleachers. One kid was running and he collapsed on the bleachers and died in coach Rake's arms. The coach blamed himself ever since.
I chose this quote because it surprised me. Neely Creenshaw was the best player to ever play in that town and everybody new him. He had been away from the town for ten years so I guess the ladys are new to the town. Neely didn't want to go back to the town because he hates all the attention and everybody asking about his injury. So he was happy when the two women didn't recognize him.
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