Aunt Queen said absolutely not, and I also nodded to it. I was glad to give in. 'The outside world is going to think you're a crackpot, Tarquin, if they don't already from all these years of your talking about that damned spook. Human enough.
I couldn't do it, he said, until it was leaving you, because when it was with you the Fire might have burnt you too. That was the end of it. I cleaned up the bedspread as best I could with a wet washcloth, and then I flopped down and went into a strange half sleep. ’ 'Mona, why do you try to go to bed with so many people?' I asked.
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