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no objection to wedding Emerald, and for the
ophthalmologist, Carl Marco, Jr., who had no way to
avoid wedding his receptionist other than flight. Luke
Packer had never given the question any thought, and
neither (at almost twice his age) had Lance Abernathy,
though the question had certainly been posed to him by
a variety of individuals, some of them extremely
indignant. It was apparent by now even to Prudence
Lattice that Sloan Highwick would never go to the altar
with a lady.
It was not apparent to anyone but themselves that
Walter Saar and Jonathan Fields would never do so
either. Walter's mother still saved hand-knitted caps
and blankets to pass along to his bride upon her happy
pregnancy, and Evelyn Troyes (reconciled to her own
ineligibility) was ever on the search for that perfect girl
whom Jonathan had not yet chanced to meet.
Bachelorhood is a disposition, not a condition. The
truest bachelor in town was old William Bredforet, who
had been parenthetically married for more than sixty
years and during that time (despite the military
reconnaissance, stake-outs, and spy system of his wife,