They did not write a new contract. They did something far more dangerous, for two people like them: they left the old one alone, and simply stopped obeying it. It happened in small mutinies. Julian began coming to breakfast again, and then began arriving early, and then began arriving before Iris, so that the tea was already steeping when she
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