When we were not spying upon the carousers, we were in our house, where Marius painted her portraits, devising her as this or that goddess, as the Biblical Judith with the head of the Florentine for her Holofernes, or as the Virgin Mary staring rapt at a tiny Christ child, as perfectly rendered by Marius as any image he ever made. Is there any way they could have flown here from Russia?”
“No.”
“But radiation could cause serious mutations.”
“Theoretically yes!