You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.

“Like what you see?”

“I am a man, and men do not drink pink drinks. Now, be gone, woman, and fetch me…”

“And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent …”

“He wants her in his bedroom. And not in that way — no girl has ever been in his…”