The road softens, the house brightens, and someone decides laudanum is a polite way to make a point at dinner, which is exactly the sort of politeness that gets people buried. Cecilia watches hands, quarantines wine, and begins to suspect the most boring menace of all, the man who keeps the keys and the sums.

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