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Suzanne didn’t seem surprised

Armand Gamache decided not to join that conversation

Just then Peter called, "Dinner!" and the guests filed into the kitchen

Clara had lit candles around the large roo the center of the long pine table

As Gamache took his seat he noticed that while the three art dealers seeether, so did the three AA ?" Myrna asked, taking a seat on his right She handed hiuettes

"Groups of threes"

"Really? Last ti of Humpty Dumpty"

"Christ," muttered Ruth, on his other side, "this murder’ll never be solved"

Ga now"

She stared back at hihed "Quite right too," she said, grabbing some bread "I’m all that, andpassed in one direction, while spring vegetables and salad were going in the other Everyone helped theroups of threes," Ruth nodded to the art dealers "Like Curly, Larry and Moe over there?"

François Marois laughed but André Castonguay looked bleary and peeved

"There’s a long tradition of groups of threes," said Myrna "Everyone thinks in terms of couples, but actually threes are very common Mystical even The holy trinity"

"Three Graces," said Gabri, helping hi, Clara"

"The Three Fates," said Paulette

"There’s ‘three on a match,’" said Denis Fortin "Ready Aim" He looked at Marois "Fire But we’re not the only ones to move in threes," said Fortin

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"You do too," said Fortin, looking frohed "I hadn’t thought of that, but it’s true"

"Three blind mice," said Ruth