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got used to it."
"Did you marry him?" said Lyra.
"No. I didn't marry anyone. I lived with someone, not Alfredo, someone else. I lived with him for four years, nearly. My family was scandalized. But then we decided we'd be happier not living together. So I'm on my own. The man I lived "Oh... Nice. That's all I remember."
"When I first saw you, in your Oxford," Lyra said, "you said one of the reasons you became a scientist was that you wouldn't have to think about good and evil. Did you think about them when you were a nun?"
"Hmm. No. But I knew what I should think: it was whatever the Church taught me to think. And when I did had to think about other things altogether. So I never had to think about them for myself at all."
"But do you now?" said Will.with used to like mountain climbing, and he taught me to climb, and I walk in the mountains and... And I've got my work. Well, I had my work. So I'm solitary but happy, if you see what I mean.""What was the boy called?" said Lyra. "At the party?""Tim.""What did he look like?"
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