Three miles away, in a renovated mansion built in the American Queen Anne style 143 years ago by Woodrow Huxley Zorn III, cofounder of Zorn Automobiles, James makes love to his wife for the first time in months, inducing seismic orgasms from them both. But he feels her fall sad afterward, turning from him too soon, abandoning him for her private interiority, which he imagines as the library of a castle they once visited in Ireland, spectacular and haunted and damaged by cannon fire.
