Summary

Serena lived on St. Augustine’s Road in an old apartment that smelled of residents of the past. She could never quite get the odor out of her room. She had three housemates – Pauline, Bridget and Tricia – who were working girls, were rather boring and had no semblance of a viable social life. Away from the Registry, Serena read as voraciously as ever usually consuming three to four books a week. She did most of her reading in a comfortable easy chair she bought new. Still a bit lost, she searched for herself in the characters she read about. She couldn’t help but think of Tony as she read. She used a green leather bookmark he gave her when he complained about her ruining the spines of her books by leaving them face down to mark her place.

Serena earned a black mark...