[tag=IN] [tag=NN] [lemma=she] [tag=VBD] [□]
[tag=IN] [tag=NN] [lemma=she] [tag=VBD] [□=□]
[tag=IN] [tag=NN] [lemma=she] [tag=VBD] [□ & □]
Dorothea for the moment forgot her husband 's mysterious irritation against Will : it seemed fresh water at her thirsty lips to speak without fear to the one person whom she had found receptive ; for in looking backward through sadness she exaggerated a past solace . She then followed her husband Marco to the Flemisch part of Belgium where they lived for three years ; during this period of time she took a course on diamond grading and identification in Antwerp , the diamond trading world capital . That brings back another parallel , almost , I might say , an historical parallel , to our mind ; that of Dr. Anna Kingsford , taking place perhaps some forty years ago , who claimed - - of course she was a very strong anti-vivisectionist - - that by thought-power she caused the death of Claude Bernard , the great vivisection scientist of France . Asaro again buttresses the " superscience " of her story with reasonable speculative scientific explanations , though on occasion she introduced a convenient feature which did n't ring quite true to me ; and some typical weaknesses of space opera are still present , such as engineering programs which invent amazing new spaceship tech and manage to refit or build new millions of ships in a matter of months . After graduation she declined a lucrative offer from a private firm and went to work for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund ( LDF ) .