Lory stared at Alice in complete stillness.

Shoppers passed. One picked up an onion. Still she stood unmoving, wide eyed.

Marry a lover! Did she think she was stupid? That she did not realize marriage begot some of the same things people paid for, were that what she was after? Marry a lover! How had that worked for her?! MARRY A LOVER! How many women would be married to other women just because they weren’t men, were that an option!?

Lory finally managed to pry her frothing-with-rage gaze away from Alice, running fingers over her bare, unwed hand with relish.

“I’ll look into typing,” she said instead.