After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.

But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.