“I won’t permit this,” says Proserpina’s mother, who is scared and worried and upset and has nothing else to say.<\/p>\n
“You can’t prevent it,” says Proserpina. They’re waiting at a train station: almost a year ago (only a year ago?) she arrived here for fall term. She remembers her steeled jaw, her buried fear.<\/p>\n
“You’re my daughter–”<\/p>\n
“You wanted me to take up with the Buchanans, to secure our future. Well, I have.”<\/p>\n
“I wanted you to be safe!”<\/p>\n
“None of us is safe,” says Proserpina, as Dacelo walks in with hope on his face, and his father follows with hunger.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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