Would you like to come round for dinner tonight?

How's Abby holding up? She almost isn't. Keith sounded exhausted. "The guilt's eating her alive. […]

Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.

They were guided by a man in a long smock with girdle and scarf of green, and drew a wainful of children dressed as woodland gods, tossing daisies and field flowers as they went along.