Wispily

From some far seaward cisterns of the air billows of fog poured down over the city of San Francisco; rebounding like smoke from the summer-heated fronts of hills, they settled in shady hollows and caught wispily at rows of trees.

“Yes,” said Julia, vaguely and wispily. “Yes, dear, you have.”

A man and his dog were going to materialize, were going to appear out of thin air—wispily at first, becoming, finally, as substantial as any man and dog alive.

He caught a last glimpse of Mitzi’s large breasts bulging out above her brassiere, wispily veiled by the negligee.

But the fat man remains, as does the cashier, who is wispily blond, with a bony hillbilly nose and translucent white skin.