here, both together? I know Jackie will say, “Here’s a coincidence!” when he receives them in all their identity. Shall we let him say it, or not?’

‘I don’t care,’ she said.

‘No — ?’ he said, pondering.

‘It doesn’t matter, does it?’ she said.

‘Yes,’ he replied. ‘Their imaginations shall not work on us. I’ll post yours here, mine after. I cannot be implicated in their imaginings.’

He looked at her with his strange, non-human singleness.

‘Yes, you are right,’ she said.

She lifted her face to him, all