Motives

Urquhart tore the clipped column deliberately from top to bottom. "I refute it thus." They sat for a while in quiet violation of the anti-smoking ordinance. Thea picked up the Larry King transcript and read with mounting disgust. Frowning, grumbling, moaning. She put the paper down.

"Boris," she said, "I know why I'm mixed up in all this garbage. It's something to do with racism and patriarchy, making sure we learn from history. We can change the world. Like that."

"Western Civ is what you're having instead of a happy Sixties," Urquhart summarized.

She nodded. "Okay, plausible. Maybe that figures me out. Maybe Marty Gleeson and Diane too — just like Heidel and his goon squad say, a bunch of diehards who didn't get with the Reagan program. But where does that leave you?"