Then your Father jumped up and walked hard on the creaky floor. When he turned round again, his eyes were all wet and shiny like a brown stained-glass window. "What was your Dear Mother like?" he repeated. "Your Dear Mother was like--was like--the flash of a white wing across a stormy sea. And your Dear Mother's name was 'Clarice.' I give it to you for a Memorial. What better Memorial could a little boy have than his Dear Mother's name? And there is a date--" His voice grew suddenly harsh and hard like iron, and his lips puckered on his words as with a taste of rust--"there is a date--the 26th of April--No, that is too hard a date for a little boy's memory! It was a Thursday. I give you Thursday for your--Happy-Day. 'Clarice' for a Memorial, and Thursday for your Happy-Day." His words began to beat on you like blows. "As--long--as--you--live," he cried, "be very kind to any one who is named 'Clarice.' And no matter what Time brings you--weeks, months, years, centuries--_keep Thursday for your Happy-Day_. No cruelty must ever defame it, no malice, no gross bitterness." Then he crushed you close to him for the millionth, billionth fraction of a second, and went away, while you stayed behind in the scary black-oak library, feeling as big and achy and responsible as you used to feel when you and your Dear Father were carrying a heavy suit-case together and your Dear Father let go his share just a moment to light his brown cigar. It gave you a beautiful feeling in your head, but way off in your stomach it tugged some. So you crept away to bed at last, and dreamed that on a shining path leading straight from your front door to Heaven you had to carry all alone two perfectly huge suit-cases packed tight with love, and one of the suit-cases was marked "Clarice" and one was marked "Thursday." Tug, tug, tug, you went, and stumble, stumble, stumble, but your Dear Father could not help you at all because he was perfectly busy carrying a fat leather bag, some golf sticks, and a bull-terrier for a strange lady.