Sublime

Quite a strange man, thought James, watching him go – but what a relief to discover he still contained the capacity to be taken by surprise.

nosegay

palimpsest

Absconded

For five or ten years they worked together, growing stronger and wiser and more and more mutually attached, and then the miracle happened—one of these young women bore a child.

dovetailed:

As with many beautiful teenage girls, her expression lacked any trace of everyday life.