She bobbed a little Japanese curtsey, and whispered through the hard, tight knot in her throat, ‘Thank you! Oh, thank you Andrew!’ and all to wild applause.
And as the final curtain came down she stood, arms open wide, with her sons, one held fast by each hand while she was held fast in the arms of the husband she had married by habit and repute, under a weeping willow tree, so long ago.
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