This Side of Paradise Book II, Chapter 3: Young Irony The
narrator begins to sketch the results of Amory's relationship
with Eleanor by observing that neither of them would ever again
have an adventure of the kind they shared. Beginning by
explaining that Eleanor lived in Maryland with her grandfather,
the narrator backtracks to the first time the two met. In
Maryland one day, Amory is walking through the country reciting
Poe when a sudden storm forces him to rush through a field
looking for shelter. In one of the haystacks he hears someone
singing Verlaine, a French poet. Eleanor asks who is walking
through the field, and Amory responds that he is Don Juan and
climbs up beside her on her haystack. The two share a literary
and youthful conversation, and they discover that even their
thoughts follow the same paths. They part in the rain with a
kiss goodnight, and Amory feels himself quite enamored by the
country and this eighteen-year-old girl, who has lived in
France, who angered all her Baltimore relatives b