After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.

"I've been sacrificing so to strange gods that I feel I want to put on record, somehow, my fidelity—fundamentally unchanged, after all—to our own. I feel as if my hands were embrued with the blood of monstrous alien altars—of another faith altogether.

He studied the map in preparation for the hike.

Pretty soul! she durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.