"I obtained my divorce seven months ago," Miranda replied. "The marriage was...tumultuous."
That was an understatement. It had been good, very good at the beginning, full of passion and battles of will, of fighting and spectacular sex. It hadn't been enough for him, in the end. "The last year of it Petr spent mostly in Prague, in dalliances with students. I would have been agreeable to remaining married and turning a blind eye to his activities because it would've allowed me to escape the lottery, but he wanted to be free. So I didn't contest it. Perhaps I should have done so, but that's in the past, impossible to change, so I live with the consequences."