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Belford never suggests there is proof that anything physical took place in the many early-morning male-bonding sessions between Irving and Stoker, or when a bunch of the boys would whoop it up in a smoke-filled room in the back of the Lyceum.
Belford says he was never able to forge a life after Irving, and remained loyal to him until his own death seven years later.
Belford, however, manages to rein her subject in to the reasonable length of 334 pages of carefully thought-out text, a rare achievement for which she is to be commended.