He keeps it. He keeps it for eleven Fridays, which is longer than anybody expected, and he fights nobody and is gracious in the yard every week and the number creeps up.
DeaconI have everything I said I wanted. I am going to say that out loud once and then stop bringing it up.
By spring he has a blind and a stipend and a radiator that works, and he does not go down to the yard any more, and nobody can remember the last time they heard him.
TamsinI am second now. I have been second for a month. You would think it would be a relief and it turns out you can get used to anything.