The 'moral' of this story within a story is that in order for a marriage to work out, both now, and in the past, it has been necessary for that relationship to be abutted by family and friends.

It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line of fine shops and stately business premises that they really abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square which we had just quitted.

I walked round the corner, saw the City and Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I had solved my problem.

This point abutted on the shore in a grotesque outline of high granite rocks.

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