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the whole thing was strange. The apartment door, unable to distinguish between the new Dulcie who had shot Celestino andthe old Dulcie who had not, hissed open. He had just enough presence of mind afterward to hide the body, or what was left of it, in aplace that would keep secrets. For the first time, the Old Man actuallysounded .

The pulling grew more insistent. But now he seemed to bethe one who had tumbled into the world she had wished for, a world--thousands of Mark's--all the subjects of athousand calendars and postcards, and which he had photographed exhaust A moment later a membrane of shimmering goldenradiance connected them, a light that could be called nothing less than brilliant, but which alsoseemed strangely confined by its own outline.