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"Malcolm?"

"He's on her lap"

"I don't care what the cat is doing"

His chin dipped down as he shot her a vaguely condescending look "I didn't think you were"

"What is Lady Danbury doing?" Elizabeth ground out

"Sleeping"

"Sleeping?''

"That is what she said she'd be doing, isn't it?"

She scowled at hi fitful? Does she see about?"

"In her sleep?" he asked doubtfully

"Don't be a nodcock People move about in their sleep all the--" Her eyes narrowed "Why are you shed to try to cover up his traitorous lips, and tried to remember the last time a woman had called him a nodcock The ladies he'dsort, co, his face, his forone so far as to coet away

He'd never guessed, however, just how a it would be to be insulted by Elizabeth Hotchkiss

"Why are you s?"

"You know you were"

He leaned in far enough to cause her to catch her breath "Do you want the truth?"

"Er, yes The truth is almost always preferable"

"Almost?"

"Well, if the other choice is to needlessly hurt another's feelings," she explained, "then-- Wait amy question"

"Ah, yes, the smile," he said "It was the nodcock co because I insulted you?"