"Keith Landry was going home after twenty-five years on the front."
Chap. 1, p. 9

"Keith Landry had felt good when he was a soldier, an understandable and honorable profession in Spencer County, but later, when he'd become involved in intelligence work, he began to question his occupation."
Chap. 3, pp. 29-30

"But now she felt better, and she promised herself that if Keith was alive, she'd find the means and the courage to see him, to speak to him, to see how much of him was her fantasy and how much of him was real."
Chap. 4, p. 53

"Certainly, he'd known that it would be a long time before they would see each other again. But it never occurred to him that a quarter century would pass and that the world they knew would have vanished so completely."
Chap. 10. p. 155

"Keith wondered again why they hadn't married then."
Chap. 12, p. 195

"You...