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Em and Sue are now snuggling in bed together, as future sisters-in-law are wont to do.
Downstairs, its time to meet my new favorite character: Maggie the maid.
The limerick scene in Dublin iswild.
The fashion on these men of Amherst is A++.
I would 100 percent wear Austins robe.
Meanwhile, Sue is still wearing her mourning dress.
Or does she just wear black a lot?
Does she have other clothes?
Austin tries to flirt with his betrothed by announcing that girls in school would be too distracting.
The girls head to the dressmakers.
Vinnie wants one that will give her wide hips so she looks really fertile.
Is this tailoring improbably impeccable, considering these are the borrowed clothes of a dead male stranger?
Do we really care about that?
Eh, not really.
The clothes are fabulous.
(Em introduces herself as Lysander Periwinkle, Sue as Tybalt Butterfly.)
To emphasize this inescapable point, George makes a model volcano.
Imagine being so far in the past that a seventh-grade science-fair project could blow your mind.
Her hat pops off and her hair pours out.
(HOW DID THAT HAPPEN SO FAST.)
Vinnie realizes shes been knitting all day?
I worry about her.
I imagine its like the worst of David Brooks, no?
Going to school and defying her parents?
Sue tells Em that she knows what a volcano feels like.
Andthatis how they both fit in such a tiny bed.
