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I'm shoving off. There was cruelty not only in the manner of Sonia Davies' death,though. Will you believe your mother? he asked me. But he also sounded like a man who was five notesshort of a full sonata, and how was anyone to know how far a

Then from somewhere in the vast hall, I hearit: A baby has begun crying. I'm sending you Gladys Smiley,darling, Jill's mother had announced upon being told of the grandchildto come. o that he'd come to assume was his punishmentfor a transgression he'd committed in a previous lifetime. And the strain in his voice told me thatshe had been quite old enough not only to have established a permanentplace in his heart but also to have made an indelible mark on hisspirit.