Worse was to come. "At lunchtime I want you to walk around the Market Square and back. I'm sure Riku will understand if you have a long lunch hour. Yo...u're working for an English magazine anyway and can call it research or something." You want us to walk there and back... ? That's a mile or more! I can hardly get from our room to here!"She laughed at my expression of horror. "Well I suppose I could ask a couple of the guards to march you there at bayonet point." You're cruel!" No, you might even. " Well, I..." I try to say something, but I feel my voice breaking up, fromthe embarrassment."Now that we know you like wearing dresses," she goes on, "You have everyreason to stay the little weakling that you are."I can't help it, either, and I, too, start sobbing quietly.Edna takes another sip from her cup, puts it down on the saucer."Let's see who's left," she says, picking up another parcel."Roger, my darling husband", she reads the label, "Though by now, you canprobably guess what you're. His marriage, if you could call it that, was an absolute disaster. He’d gotten married more or less because his domineering mother had wanted him to. She introduced him to a girl named Janice who she liked a lot, probably more than she had ever liked him. He sort of got railroaded into it. The marriage lasted less than three years and it had ended uglier than usual while we were deployed. We hadn’t been out very long before rumors began to drift in. Janice had been seen at the club. Janice had. When I woke up again, I realized I wasn’t as groggy as before. My mom let me know that the doctor had reduced my pain meds so that I would come around, and that he wanted to do another examination. I was surprised to see June standing at the foot of my bed. Her eyes were puffy and red from crying. “Hey…when did you get here?” I asked hoarsely. “Not long ago. Your mom called me and let me know what happened.” June walked to the head of the bed and leaned over to give me a brief hug. I saw my.