"I don't want to talk about her."
"And the knot?"
"That's the part I still can't remember. I lost the night from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day. The knot must be part of it. I don't know what or how. All I know is that it terrifies me every time I think of it."
"Is Lennox an English name?"
"I think so. From way back. What's that have to do with it?"
"Puritans," Gabby explained. "You're so moralistic. Always feeling guilty ... like something out of 'The Scarlet Letter.'"
"Moralistic," Lennox repeated slowly. "Am I loud?"
"Deafening."
"And fancy ... elegant?"
"Not the phony way you say it; but you have style, Jordan. Yes, you're definitely Edwardian."