Tinter left, and in five minutes a puny figure detached itself from the crowd.

That necklace, carefully worked up by the tinter, apparently of gold and rubies.

Eventually, though, even the most reticent come to the library, said Ms. Tinter.

The colors are applied electronically on a control console and displayed to the tinter on a video screen.

"Susan and Tim have both been by with their children for our programs here," Ms. Tinter said.

Tinter's weapon of choice is the saber and Flounders competes in epée.

Tinter turned and left.

He then moved to Kentucky where he worked as a photograph tinter as well as a fruit merchant.

Lieutenant Tinter murmured rebelliously, "Seven days without action.

The issues of prejudice, class and discrimination, however, pulled her deeper into the underlying philosophical issues, Ms. Tinter said.

"Most libraries have problems," Mrs. Tinter said.

He told Mrs. Freiheit who told Marilyn Tinter, the library director here.

And then the great outer voice of the Far Star ceased and Lieutenant Tinter was back, troubled.

Add a paint tinter to some Ready-mixed Artex and dab through the stencil with a piece of sponge.

The average Pound Ridge household stands to pay $167 a year to keep its library solvent, Mrs. Tinter said.

Mrs. Tinter, 27, teaches at the Hebrew Academy for Special Children in Brooklyn.

Jonathan Tinter, who oversees the portability strategy at AT&T Wireless, said the company did not plan to change significantly its effort to keep customers.

One afternoon Mrs. Freiheit and Mrs. Tinter rummaged through the storage room.

Mr. Tinter, 27, is a psychotherapist working with adolescents at Holliswood Hospital in Hollis, Queens.

His eye slid to Lieutenant Tinter, who shifted uneasily to one side and to Watch-Sergeant Demen, whose blank face and stolid figure flanked the other.

The current co-captains of the women's squad, Christine Flounders and Heidi Tinter, began fencing as first-year students, just as Jones-Pugliese had done.

"People can be as active as they want or they can keep very, very private," said Marilyn Tinter, director of the Hiram Halle Memorial Library.

Mrs. Tinter oversees a book sale every two months when volunteers like Jackie Rodney, Gloria Smith and Ginny Powers peddle surplus and donated books.

Marilyn Tinter, director of the Hiram Halle Library in Pound Ridge, said, "I really opened myself to Harry Potter, but I had to read it through a child's eyes to feel the passion."

"With libraries, there is a history and tradition of not wanting to change, keep things as they are, the same old people on the board," Mrs. Tinter said, adding that the new charter would require voters to select the library's board, and probably lead to some changes.