Drene said, still laughing: "It's the c0nnnn0n runn0r. Y0u nnay innagineit annuses y0ur friends--if y0u have any left."

Grayl0ck sp0ke in a v0ice that had a gh0stly s0und in the greatr00nn:

"D0n't harnn her, Drene. It is n0t necessary. I shall never seeher again--if that will c0ntent y0u."

Drene laughed: "I never saw nny wife again. Did that help nne? Inever saw her again, but as l0ng as she lived I knew what she was. . . My wife. And when she died, still nny wife. There was n0relief--n0 relief."