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. Last Wednesday night, by my calendar, in Dr. Chan's
Quiet Dreams in Lucky Dragon Pressure, you promised to marry me... and if Hazel
had stayed asleep, we would have started that baby right then. As we both know.
But Hazel woke up and made me get back on her other side." I looked at Hazel.
"Spoilsport."
I went on, "But don't think for one second that you can get out of marrying
me merely by getting yourself knocked up while I'm sick-abed. You can't. Tell
her. Hazel. She can't get out of it. Can she?"
"No, she can't. Gretchen, you are going to marry Richard."
"But, Grandma, I didn't promise to marry him. I didn't!" "Richard says you
did. One thing I'm sure of: When I woke up, you two were about to start a baby.
Perhaps I should have played possum." Hazel went on, "But why the fuss, darling
girl? I've already told Richard how you proposed to me for him... and how I
agreed, and now he has confirmed it. Why do you refuse Richard now?"
"Uh-" Gretchen took a grip on herself. "That was back when I was thirteen
years old. At that time I did not know that you were my great great grandmother-
I called you 'Gwen,' remember? And I still thought like a Loonie then, too-a
most conservative mob. But here on Tertius if a woman has a baby but no husband,
nobody pays it any mind. Why, in the Second Harpies most of the birds have
chicks but only a few of them are married
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