272 < 34 > EPILOGUE She paced the Manhattan neighborhood, her backpack swinging, marveling at the austere buildings gleaming silver in their starkness. ” “But why?” “He’s married—and, I believe, living separated from his wife. “Why—it’s—it’s you!” Amazement seemed to dry up the torrents of his speech. ” Lucy made fast friends with Jane Lenihan that day. There are some islands upon which he is not permitted to land any more. “She finds lying up so much very irksome. Her father became much less distant towards his only daughter in the days that followed. ’ ‘Gracious heaven, Gerald! If your dear mama could not drag you to the altar, I am hardly likely to succeed. " "Comfort yourself, then, Aliva. “Do you know,” she confessed, “I never thought of that?” He looked at her as though doubting even now whether she could possibly be in earnest. She passed him silently as she dropped Michelle’s dried corpse into the open clay pit awkwardly, like a discarded doll. I did not know what God had in mind then.