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Emily pounded on the door, assuming it would do no good, but finding the act of pounding very satisfying indeed.

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Emily stared into the middle distance, trying to ignore the fact that the men were looking at her like a cupcake on a plate.

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Emily's chestnut-colored hair was thick and shiny as silk floss—an extraordinary female endowment. But like most female endowments, it was generally more trouble than it was worth.

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I wasn't sure if we were still engaged.
After everything we've been through? After true love conquered all? Emily shook her head. Being dead had done nothing to alleviate your obtuseness, Mr. Stanton.
Being dead allowed me to learn the heart's deepest secret, he said. That sometimes love—even true love—isn't enough.
But it's a start, Emily said.

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Still feeling guilty, are we? I'd have thought you'd be over that by now.
I have a nettlesome little thing called a conscience, Emily hissed. Ever hear of it?
They're out of fashion in New York, Stanton said, and though she guessed she was joking, he didn't sound humorous.

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It is a great weakness of credomancers, Miss Edwards. They often believe their own press.
You're a credomancer, too, Emily said.
I'm also a woman. Failure, struggle, and doubt are my constant companions. They are not always pleasant, but they inoculate me against overconfidence. As such, I would not trade them for all the arrogant bravado in the world.

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I'll do everything I can to help, I promise.
You always have, Emily murmured. Except tell me the truth about anything.

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Emily looked at him for a long time. There were so many things she wanted to know—but she wanted not to know them even more. She didn't want any more answers. He had been the one thing she could trust, the one person she could rely on. She wanted to beg him to be that way again. But it wasn't him who had changed. It was her. It was her own credulity she really wanted back. And credulity, like virtue, could be lost only once.

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The obsessive rules of etiquette struck Emily as mean-spirited, like the old trick of tying someone's shoelaces under the table. It was only fun if you liked watching people fall down.

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The shortness of the woman's replies indicated that Emily was asking questions Miss Jesczenka didn't particularly want to answer, but those were usually the questions that most needed to be asked.

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Emily already knew there was going to be hell to pay, and she supposed there was no use allowing it to accrue interest.

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The sight of Oakland sprawling on the horizon gave Emily's spirits an additional boost. Oakland was by no means lovely, but it meant they were almost to San Francisco.

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Having engaged in vigorous and passionate debate while on their honeymoon trip from New York, they had arrived at the startling—and rather liberating—conclusion that the marriage itself was not at all necessary. Stanton no longer had a name to give, and taking Emily's would have involved all the tedium of authority and nonsense they'd hoped to avoid. So, in the end, he had returned to her the simple gold band she had worn for so long, sliding it onto the ring finger of her new right hand. And she had given him a soft slow kiss. They were the only vows required.

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