Slowly she turned to look at Bean.

At once several others stopped to look at Bean as if he were an object washed into the street by a storm.

Wiggin glanced at Bean, but his eyes kept moving.

Graff looked at Bean in silence, then reached out and put a hand on Bean's head, tousled his hair a little.

He looked at Bean, but his eyes betrayed nothing of what he was feeling.

"So that's what they call it at Bean Can College," said the sock.

Peter wondered what it would be like, to have Petra look at him the way she looked at Bean.

Wonderful to have a woman look at him the way Petra looked at Bean.

Petra looked at Bean and, for the first time, realized that this might be true.

"I met him at the Leaf and Bean last night," she said quietly, still hugging her papers.