11.   Achilles sits in his tent, brooding over the wrongs done to him.

12.   After Olivia Davenport left, he sat in silence, staring at the door.

13.   Afterward I sat in the kitchen with her over a cup of coffee.

14.   All at once the hulking man led him forward and sat him in a hard chair opposite Matta.

15.   All he could do was sit in the corner of his cage, hoping it would all end.

16.   Amelia carried a plate of eggs and toast over to a man sitting in the back, poring through a newspaper.

17.   Ancient women sat in darkened eighteenth- and nineteenth-century doorways, heads covered in kerchiefs or round-brimmed hats like up-ended pudding basins.

18.   And I was lucky enough to sit in the catbird seat and watch and learn and be changed myself.

19.   And the minute she saw the dress and shoes sitting in the front yard, she broke water.