between-the-acts

Updated: April 30, 2025

These were sort of hit-or-miss, between-the-acts affairs, to which he paid little attention. To Nelia, however, they represented a rite as valid as any solemn court procedure could be, for to her river-trained instinct there was no moral question as to the justice of her claim upon a part of Carline's fortune.

Raymond S. (Raymond Smiley) Spears - The River Prophet