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"Huh," I rapes?" Bianca asked

I smiled "No If Hendly is happy, then so a someone you don’t even know"

There was a pause before Madeline spoke "Aren’t we kind of doing the saer"

"Really?" Madeline challenged "Then please, tell ot nothing"

"Actuallylist of facts about Clarksonbut there wasn’tI know every last secret about hi down the street We’ve grown up with him, heard him speak on the Report, seen his face hundreds of times We may not know all the details, but I have a very clear impression of hiht It’s not as if alked through the door not knowing his name"

"Exactly"

The maid was so quiet, I didn’t realize she’d approached until she was at"You’re needed for awrong I turned to the girls and shrugged before standing to follow her out the door

In the hallway, she estured, and I turned to see Prince Clarkson He was standing there with that al in his hand

"I was just dropping off a package at the mail roo up an envelope between two fingers "I thought you ht away"

I walked over as quickly as I could without seerin becaht up in the air

I giggled, hopping and trying desperately to clutch it "No fair!"

"Coh not in heels, and even with thehtly shorter than he was But I didn’t , because somewhere in my sad atteave me my letter As I suspected, it was fro into aze froht it overin his eyes--not quite mischief, not quite a secret "I do Very much" With that he turned and walked down the hall, not even glancing back

It was true I had an idea of who he was Still, as I saw him in day-to-day life, I realized there was much e didn’t seeh

On the contrary, he was a mystery I was excited to solve

I sht there in the hallway, ht