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He felt weak, but he didn't feel as if he were dying. Thanks for the company, he said. That's the whole trouble with women, Call said, as if to himself. July looked noncommittal.

Call didn't expect him to wake. July sat where he was until the afterglow was just a pale line on the western horizon. I'd like to help, July said. The twilight began to deepen into dusk.