It pleased Alaina that they were all together: she and Jack and their children, and Jack's mother, and Alaina's brother, and Martha. It was quite like an ordinary family, and Alaina could almost forget that her father had died in a dungeon, and she was legally married to Jack's stepbrother, and Ellen was an outlaw, and—She shook her head. Furthermore, it was no use pretending this was a normal family.

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