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Unit 2 Appointment with Love Part A 閱讀—Reading Section 　　Six minutes to six, said the great round clock over the information booth in Grand Central Station. The tall young army lieutenant who had just come from the direction of the tracks lifted his sunburned face, and his eyes narrowed to note the exact time. His heart was pounding with a beat that shocked him because he could not control it. In six minutes, he would see the woman who had filled such a special place in his life for the past thirteen months, the woman he had never seen, yet whose written words had been with him and sustained him unfailingly. 　　He placed himself as close as he could to the information booth, just beyond the ring of people around the clerks.... 　　Lieutenant Blandford remembered one night in particular, the worst of the fighting, when his plane had been caught in the midst of a pack of Zeros. He had seen the grinning face of one of the Japanese pilots. 　　In one of his letters, he had confessed to her that he often felt fear, and only a few days before this battle, he had received her answer: “Of course you fear...all brave men do. Didn’t King David know fear? That’s why he wrote the Twenty-third Psalm. Next time you doubt yourself, I want you to hear my voice reciting to you: Yea, though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me.” And he had remembered; he had heard her imagined voice, and it had renewed his strength and skill. 　　Now he was going to hear her real voice. Four minutes to six. His face grew sharp. 　　Under the immense, starred roof, people were walking fast, like threads of color being woven into a gray web. A girl passed close to him, and Lieutenant Blandford started. She was wearing a red flower in her suit lapel, but it was a crimson sweet pea, not the little red rose they had agreed upon. Besides, this girl was too young, about eighteen, whereas Hollis Meynell had frankly told him she was thirty. “Well, what of it?” he ha