About one-third of this importation was margarine, which in America was called bull butter.

The treatment room was semibusy. Susan, the surgical nurse, was working on a cat with a bite wound I had treated earlier, and a large boxer lay on another table, restrained by Walter, the other clinic aide.

She can't read, so the voice recording was made for her benefit.

As the hours whiled away, they discussed everything magical they had learned and how Odele had managed to become a Keeper and survive a full year without help or interference.