Angus is trying really hard not to have his feelings hurt by all this teasing. It's in good fun! It's fine!!! This is very frustrating!!!!! He is such a small boy, too small for his feelings. There is a poutiness emerging. A sniffliness, even.

But he will struggle through deductively. For now.

"Important to the story they're trying to tell?"

Who are they? Why is the phone book important? These are all good questions, but for a second he stops, no longer thinking of them so much as he is caught up in the concept of . . . the whole story. With a beginning, middle, and end.

Distantly: "Do you think they're in the right order? Or mixed up somehow?"