MD3PAD 187-189

[Toby G Levy]

        Susannah's daughter asks Rebekah where she and Mason were wed.
They were wed near the East India docks in a place known as Clive Chapel
which had scenes in it depicting Lord Clive's marriage to Margaret
Maskelyne.

        On the ride back from his attempt to attend Bradley's funeral,
Mason muses on the life of Bradley: how he observed major comets in 1723
and 1737 but not 1744 because that was the year of his marriage to
Susannah. Susannah died in another comet year, 1757.  Rebekah died two
years later. Halley's comet reached perihelion a month after Rebekah's
death.

        Mason remembers listening to predatory owls hunting and killing
as he did his observations in Bradley's observatory. Mason remembers
Bradley describing his discovery of the aberration of light. By the time
Mason went to work for him Bradley was a legendary figure throughout
Europe.

        Mason reproaches himself for a few unkind thoughts about the
Peach family and Bradley. He tries not to think of what the future might
hold for him with Bradley gone.

Toby