Rules of Civility is smart, like its main character. “He pronounced it Cón-tent, as in the content of a book,” she observes when someone pronounces her last name wrong. “‘It’s Kon-tént,’” she says, correcting him, “like the state of being,’” though one gets the impression from her discipline and demeanor that it ought to be the other way around.
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