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protection of the post office news and highway news.
Even ordinarily Mr. and Mrs. Haig were not at ease
with each other. Whenever they were separated, the
transition back to cohabitation was always clumsy.
Hawk felt intrusive and Judith felt intruded upon. His
voice and steps sounded to his own ears like a loud,
hollow echo in the still house.
He seemed to loom quickly and awkwardly there,
out of proportion to the furniture. To her, his soiled
clothes coiling out of the open suitcase on the bed were
almost cause for panic. She had unpacked them and
pushed them down into the hamper.
First evenings together were always difficult, but on
this particular one Judith was constrained, as well, by
the distance she had put between them through her
unexplainable involvement with Chin Lam Henry and
Winslow Abernathy. It was not that she had never kept
secrets from John before. Her whole felt life was a
secret, wholly unshared. Yet she had rarely, if ever—
and she couldn't recall which, so devoid of significance
had her actions been—falsified what she did. Now she
had actively denied Sarah's report of her interest in the