I raided my closet and left Clay in my living room while I changed and makeuped in the bathroom.

It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts.

[…]The public mind is, as a rule, not sufficiently acquainted with the rationalia involved to be capable of self-protection, or to be able to distinguish, as scientific men generally do, what has been definitely discovered from what has in the absence of discovery been plausibly suggested.

In the case of a copper alloy, the inflammatory reaction may be minimal and a slow diffusion of copper occurs and impregnates limiting membranes of the eye to produce the picture of chalcosis that may include peripheral corneal ring, sunflower cataract, and heterochromia of the iris.