"Can’t have too many wives, it’s what life’s all about. Take Georgiana for instance, Constantine’s first wife. Talked her into a trace of Shatter, no more than twenty mikes, I swear, and it improved her disposition no end. Now she’s as sweet as the day is long." He looked at Lindsay seriously. "Can’t have too many oldsters around, though. Disturbs the ideology. Bad enough with those pesky Cataclysts and their posthuman schemes. Keep ’em behind wire, in quarantine. Even then kids keep sneaking in."