Lucinda tilted her head at him, although it was less a hostile gesture than it was a curious one. "You're going to be a father," she pointed out, "You are a husband now." Tybalt Kirke struck her less as someone who was ready to be the head of his family and more as someone who had simply stumbled into it, and this did not instill her with an abundance of faith. But he was family now, and that meant that she ought to try to help him, rather than just poke at his somewhat obvious failings.

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