On Diomedes, the resident's wife commits adultery with Flandry in her private suite where, surprisingly, the window remains uncurtained:
the view is grim;
hail, thicker and harder than Terran, dashes the vitryl of the window;
an ember sunbeam shines through a gap in the clouds;
the scene is blue-black, lit by lightning;
"Past every insulation and heaviness came a ghost of the wind's clamor." (p. 447)
OK. Clamoring wind pierces the insulation even if reduced to a ghost of its real self. Thus also, Flandry enjoys Lady Susette's company but is reminded of the real threats without. He must pump her about recent guests in the Residency.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Part of the problem for Susette was that there was so little for her to in a small outpost like Thursday Landing. Not even looking after children, because the medications humans needed to take to live on Diomedes made women temporarily sterile. Sometimes, if such a person was a scientist or scholar, the study of Diomedes itself would have given Susette an outlet.
Ad astra! Sean
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