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Nice, huh? Steph asked in that infuriating way she had of knowing what someone else was thinking. Listen! she said. While he stood perplexed how to dig a grave, two lionscame up quietly, and, as it were, mourning; and tearing up the ground,made a hole large enough for the reception of a human body. All clear.

The Margo he'd known would never break a promise, but they'd both changed a lot since college. Now he understood. He could not have tolerated an English wife—his disgust at the prospect had been achingly clear. Gives us time, then, to make some distance.