Gentlemen, Cousteau says again, and when he continues everyone knows he’s about to talk about the rift. No one looks at Marie. I did not believe, he says, his eyes sweeping the audience. I did not believe that the map of the North Atlantic recently published by Lamont could possibly be right. I did not believe that the Mid-Atlantic Rift pictured on it could possibly be continuous. Too complete a story, I thought, from too little information. But it is there, Cousteau says. His eyes find Marie’s. It is true, he says.
