  Cassandra's Diary.35  Day 8/25  Things have settled down a
bit. Now that there aren't any distractions, Tralee has gone to
thinking about Thrum. She spends most of her time quite
distracted and DeWinter is getting a bit concerned. I tried to
assure him this was natural and it will fade in time but he's
not entirely convinced.  DeWinter did say he thought Thrum was
most civilized about the whole matter and I quite agreed with
him. Eventually Tralee came to talk with us, asking if we could
bring Thrum back to Gianassa. I had to prevaricate a bit. I said
we could but not for a while. I stressed that the rules stated
that he couldn't come back for another four or five years.
Strictly speaking, in Mycenae, they wouldn't meet again, unless
it was a strictly social setting. It's the result of having too
many use there unusually close attachments for political ends.
Of course, Thrum would be a bit different. The Weir aren't
political in the same sense. And he would have both Tatasha and
me after him if he used Tra