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friend wanted someone to sublet his place for a month<br />

and love his plants while he studied at a Sufi center in<br />

Marin County, California. They had agreed to do so.<br />

But Beanie was ashamed and confused now.<br />

Didn't she owe the rector some explanation? In his<br />

beckoning arm she had seemed to see her past call her<br />

home to account for herself.<br />

Her husband, sons, relations, friends, generations of<br />

dead Dingleys in the town cemetery all waved in Sloan<br />

Highwick's fluttering white jacket like smiling ghosts.<br />

That among all the millions of Manhattan strangers he<br />

should appear there and at that moment was a sign to<br />

her. "I have to go back," she said, and she saw that<br />

Richard's heart leaped. Yet he said, "All right, darlin'.<br />

Whatever feels right to you."<br />

"There're more people involved than just me."<br />

"Can I help?" he asked her, thinking, How could I<br />

help? Help her clear away her past for her? Now, when<br />

for the first time in his life, Rage felt with an ache the<br />

loss of his own past? Must love now cost the two<br />

membership just when he was eager to join the<br />

community club, the fraternity of generations? Unlike

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