Smiling Understandingly, How I got to Live on a Mountain, No Apologies

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just a…