You shouldn’t step from a main road into a side road, and from the side road into a black hole that leads nowhere. It’s not illegal, but it’s not advisable. Bella wouldn’t have done it. The old Bella, who became the shed skin of the new Bella, wouldn’t have done it. The blithe rashness of the act was something she just wouldn’t have done. But you can’t expect young men, with voices like those voices, to feel like a Bella. You can’t expect them to tread softly, like a Bella. You can’t expect them to hesitate, when every building, every patch of grass, every dim-lit street, every station, every
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