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"Yes. Isn't she lovely?"
"Wasn't she! Past tense, dear. If what I've been told is true, her ethereal
beauty has been dust for more than two thousand years. Rest in peace. Then we
went to Rainbow's End for a late supper and a total stranger had the bad taste
to get himself abruptly dead at our table. Whereupon you raped me."
"Not at the table!"
"No, in my bachelor's apartment."
"And it wasn't rape."
"We need not fight over it since you repaired my tarnished reputation
before noon the next day. Our wedding day, my true love. Mistress Gwendolyn
Novak and Dr. Richard Ames announced their marriage on Tuesday the first of
July, 2188. Keep track of that date."
"I'm not likely to forget it!"
"Me, too. That evening we got out of town fast, with the sheriff's hounds
a-snappin' and a-yappin' at our heels. We slept that night in Dry Bones
Pressure. Right?"
"Right so far."
"The next day, Wednesday the second, Gretchen drove us to Lucky Dragon
Pressure. We slept that night in Dr. Chan's place. The following day, Thursday
the third. Auntie drove us toward Hong Kong Luna, but not all the way because we
encountered those eager agrarian reformers. You drove the rest of the way and we
wound up at Xia's hotel so late at night that it was hardly worthwhile to go to
bed. But we did. That puts us into Friday the fourth of July
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