"Austin believes it." "But--but--how in God's name could that be possible?
She was so brilliant--so witty, so charmingly and capriciously normal--" "Her father was brilliant and popular--when he was young.

Austin knew him, Phil.

I have often, often wondered whether Alixe realises what she is about.

Her restless impulses, her intervals of curious resentment--so many things which I remember and which, now, I cannot believe were entirely normal.

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