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William laughs at a memory of Lucy, then Lucy thinks of how David wouldn’t have laughed at anything she did. “What a hideous thing marriage was at times those years with William: a familiarity so dense it filled up the room. . . The slight flicker of an eyebrow slightly raised, no one but the other would know what it meant; but you could not be free living like that, not ever. Intimacy became a ghastly thing.”