“So I changed my mind, that’s all. I decided that if I was gone go to the trouble of marrying you—and Malcolm, there never was a man who was more trouble than you—then I might as well go on and do the other thing, too.” Yet no child came, and it began to look as if no child would. This irked Miriam. She didn’t like being thwarted, and that it was her own body that was proving recalcitrant was a double insult.
