Talk:A Burnt-Out Case

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This plot summary is a bit too imaginative:

Querry meets the 14 ??? year old wife of a misogynistic colonist

and the two are drawn to one another. (Where does that information appear in the novel? Querry is indifferent to her, just a bit sympathetic, if anything.

Though he never becomes physically intimate with her, she does spend a night in a hotel room with him after running away. When she discovers she is pregnant by her husband shortly after, something that never happened before despite his forcing himself on her regularly, she explains to Quarry that it is still his child, since she was thinking of him during its conception and this allowed her to become pregnant. Her husband kills Quarry in a crime of passion after concluding that the child was not his own.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mauronicolini (talk • contribs) 10:22, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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