 Which word best describes William?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction December 1959. For punishment, he locked me in a windowless room and told me to sit still until he came back. Being four or five, I didn't know any better, so I thought Dad made it dark to add to my punishment. My mother and father must have been glad when I was sent away to reform school after my thirteenth birthday party, the one Partridge didn't seem to notice me, but I knew that was an act. "Brothers, this being Thanksgiving, I pray the good Lord that we all are truly thankful for all that we have received. Some skin-and-bones character I didn't know struggled out of his seat, amening. As soon as I got cleaned up, I was going to have dinner in a good restaurant, and I was going to order such expensive food and leave such a large tip for the waiter and send one to the chef that they were going to think I was rich, and some executive with some brokerage firm would see me and say to himself, "Hmm, executive material. I beg your pardon, sir—" just like the razor-blade comic-strip ads in the old magazines that Frankie the Pig sells three for a quarter. Even Partridge made his way down from the auctioneer's stand like a vulture with a busted wing and darted through his private door.
 troubled
 careful  manipulative  innocent  troubled