Published by St Martin's Press
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Copyright 1998
p. 86

"And the Wings of Fire? Have you read that?"

"They're extraordinarily moving, those poem.  Where did Olivia Marlowe, spinster of the parish, learn so much about love?"

" A questions I've asked myself over and over again.  Cormac was the only man she saw much of the who wasn't a part of the family.  I know, Stephen claimed that she'd taken her fondness for him and extended it to the experience between a man and a woman.  It may be true - she was capable of that leap of understanding, if anyone was.  And Stephen was the kind of child - the kind of man - who endeared himself to everyone.  I've forgiven him sins that I'd have turned another lad over my knee for committing.  Told myself he was fatherless, and young, and meant no harm.  But I loved the boy as I'd have loved my own son