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He drew her closer. "It's hung between us." "Like your wife."... "Like the woman I used to be married to. Maybe now you understand why I didn't tell you right away." "You still are married to her." "Not in my heart." "But by law." "It bothers you a lot?" "Whenever I think of her." "Don't think of her then." "But I do."

...turning his gaze on the angular woman in the black dress until - she felt he understood everything that troubled her. It was a gaze a woman could rest herself in, a gaze that respected and sheltered her.

"Morning mass, my ass," Herr Immers said. "He ordered the last round for us at Potter's,"I the pharmacist said.