"She stared as Eric Redding leapt out of the car like the fit Mall runner he was, in his checked brown tweed jacket and his velvet olive-green pants and creamy checked shirt, leather loafers, unable to help the realization that was crowding her well-clad-for-fall body from the top of her combed hair to her properly shod feet: They were both here."
"A first-floor office has an octagonal table and an olive-green leather-top desk like that in Jefferson's office, and pink curtains that are a nod to the curtains in Monticello's parlor."
"Now they are simply "them," while in the maternity hospitals no one chooses names from that olive-green lineage for their newborns."