#*aliasgracechars

There are sharp rocks ahead...a disaster. You will cross water three times. You will have much trouble, but all will be fine in the end. You are one of us.

Some call this ‘Eve’s Curse’. But I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam.

Don’t be a silly goose, Grace, it’s easy enough. You just take an ax and give it a strong wack right through the neck.

Because a girl should never let her guard down. Mary taught me that. So did the world, I suppose.

I must admit that I have come very close to nervous exhaustion during the last two years since I was in Kingston. Not to know...to snatch at hints and portents, at tantalizing whispers--it is as bad as being haunted.

I’ve done all of this for you. Because you asked me. Because you said that you would be mine. We must hang together, or we will hang separately.