Bandcamp / Buy Thereâs a blink-and-youâll-miss-it moment late in To Kill a Mockingbird in which Scout, after meeting Boo Radley for the first and last time, walks home alone. âAs I made my way home, I felt very old,â she narrates, âbut when I looked at the top of my nose, I could see fine misty beads, but looking cross-eyed made me dizzy, so I quit.â Itâs an uncharacteristically whimsical passage for its logical setup: the experience of seeing misty beads is not exclusive to youth, but Scoutâs flitting attentionâas well as the defiantly indirect admission that she is, in fact, cryingâimply her persistent girlhood.