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“Thanks, Mommy!” cried the child, racing into his parents’ bedroom as MrsCooper got out of
the chair and followed him
“Oh, I can start him off,” said Marie, getting up from the couch
“No, Miss Marie,” protested Mrs“You stay with your husbandThat man hurts but he
won’t say anything She disappeared into the bedroom
“Is that true, my darling?” asked Marie, walking to David“Do you hurt?”
“I hate to dispel the myth of a great lady’s incontestable perceptions, but she’s wrong
“Why do you have to use a dozen words when one will suffice?”
“Because I’m supposed to be a scholarWe academicians never take a direct route because it
doesn’t leave us any offshoots to claim if we’re wrongWhat are you, anti-intellectual?”
“No,” answered Marie“You see, that’s a simple, one-word declarative
“What’s a declarative?” asked Webb, taking his wife in his arms and kissing her, their lips
enveloping, so meaningful to each, arousing to each
“It’s a shortcut to the truth,” said Marie, arching her head back and looking at him“No
offshoots, no circumlocutions, just factAs in five and five equals ten, not nine or eleven, but ten
“That’s banal, but I’ll take itYou are more relaxed, I can feel you againJason Bourne’s
leaving you, isn’t he?”
“Just aboutWhile you were with Alison, Ed McAllister called me from the National Security
AgencyBenjamin’s mother is on her way back to Moscow
“Hey, that’s wonderful, David!”
“Both Mac and I laughed, and as we laughed I thought to myself I’d never heard McAllister
laugh before
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“He wore his guilt on his sleeve—no, all over