P. 46, Scene 50 (about 1908-09) The kitchen was dark.
P. 46, Scene 51 (1928) Luster came back.
P. 46, Scene 52 (about 1908-09) It was dark under the trees.
P. 46, Scene 53 (1928) Come away from there . . .
P. 47, Scene 54 (about 1908-09) It was two now, . . .
Some critics place the scene between Caddy and Charlie as early as 1906; however, clues in the Quentin section suggest that Caddy's first encounter with Charlie occurred when Quentin was a senior in high school, making the year about 1908 or 1909.
These scenes also show Faulkner's technique of allowing memories of the past to affect present actions. As Benjy remembers the event (in the past) with Caddy at the swing, he is (in the present) heading toward the swing. In the past, he saw Caddy kissing Charlie at the swing and began to bellow. As she did in the perfume episode, Caddy makes everything all right by washing away her "sin." By this act, we are to assume that she is still a virgin because as soon as she finishes washing, she again smells like trees.
P. 48, Scene 55 (1928) I kept a telling you . . .
While remembering the episode of Caddy and Charlie at the swing, Benjy has been walking toward the swing, where Miss Quentin and her boyfriend are repeating the same actions as those of Caddy and Charlie. The two scenes here offer themselves for comparison. In both scenes, Benjy finds a couple who are kissing. Caddy's Charlie was openly hostile to Benjy, but Miss Quentin's friend is quietly vicious. And whereas Benjy was upset to find Caddy kissing a man, he apparently doesn't care what Miss Quentin does. In the scene with Caddy, he follows her to the kitchen, where she washes her mouth. In contrast, Miss Quentin goes to the kitchen by herself to complain about Benjy.
This scene also foreshadows future events about which we now know nothing. We meet the man with the red tie whom Jason saw and followed the preceding day (in the Jason section) and whom Miss Quentin runs off with. We also learn that Miss Quentin climbs out the window every night to meet various men. One of her men left his box of prophylactics there and Luster gives it to Benjy to play with.
