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Evie laughed in spite of herself "All right, then You with your keen observations--what, exactly, do you find special about h her lashes the way she’d seen Colleen Moore do in We Moderns

"There’s just so at all, which disappointed her Sa closer Evie’s stomach fluttered It wasn’t that she didn’t know her way around the fellas, but this was a New York City fella She didn’t want to irl who could take care of herself Besides, if her parents heard about this, they’d yank her straight back to Ohio

Instead, Evie looped under the handsome Sam Lloyd’s aro now I believe I see the, ue"

"Top nun? Do you mean the Mother Superior?"

"And how! Sister… Sister, um…"

"Sister Benito Mussolini Fascisti?"

"Exactly!"

Sam Lloyd smirked "Benito Mussolini is prime minister of Italy And a fascist"

"I knew that," Evie said, her cheeks flushing

"Of course you did"

"Well…" Evie stood uncertainly for a few seconds She stuck out her hand for a shake With a smirk, Sam Lloyd drew her to him and kissed her hard on theas she pulled away, red-faced and disoriented Should she slap him? He deserved a slap But was that what sophisticated Manhattanit off like an old joke they were too tired to laugh at?

"You can’t blairl in New York, can you, sister?" Saht up her knee quickly and decisively, and he dropped to the floor like a grain sack "You can’t blairl for her quick reflexes now, can you, pal?"

She turned and hurried toward the exit In a pained voice, Saood sisters of St Mary’s don’t knohat they’re in for!"

Evie wiped the kiss from her mouth with the back of her hand and pushed her way out onto Eighth Avenue, but when she saw the otten A trolley jostled down the center of the avenue on steel tracks Motorcars swerved around the throngs of people and one another with the furious grace of a corps de ballet She craned her neck to take in the full view Far above the busy streets, s like the ones whose tops already pierced the clouds, as if even the sky couldn’t hold back the aible sailed past, a smear of silver in the blue It was like a dreae in the blink of an eye A taxi careened to the corner and Evie got inside