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"I think you should marry him"

"He made a fool of me, Caroline"

"I don't think that was his intention"

"It was certainly the outcome"

"Why do you think that?" And then before Elizabeth could answer, Caroline added, "I don't think you're a fool I know Blake doesn't And Ja about Jaht as well return to your ho hand on her lower back "I don't seey these days" Then she held out her black book, asking, "Would youthis?''

"Certainly Is it a journal?"

"Of a sorts It's my personal dictionary When I co with its definition Then, of course, I et it"

"How interesting," Elizabeth ive it a try"

Caroline nodded "I wrote about you last night"

"You did?"

She nodded again "It's right there on the last page The last page I've written on, that is Go ahead I don't h the pages until she reached the last entry It read:

inexorable (adjective) Relentless; unyielding; implacable

I fear that James will prove inexorable in his pursuit of Miss Hotchkiss

"I fear it, too," Elizabeth muttered

"Well, 'I fear' was really just a phrase," Caroline hastened to explain "I certainly don't fear it In fact, if I am to be completely honest, I should have written that I hoped James would prove inexorable"

Elizabeth looked at her new friend and fought the urge to groan "Maybe we should just go hoht make one last point--"

"If it has to do with James, I'd really rather you didn't"

"It does, but I promise it's the last You see " Caroline paused to scratch her chin, s for time"

Elizabeth an to walk "I' to tell me that Ja to say that at all," Caroline interrupted "He's perfectly insufferable, but you will have to trust me when I tell you that that is the best sort of man"

"The kind you can't live with?"

"No, the kind you can't live without And if you love him--"

"I don't"

"You do I can see it in your eyes"

"I don't"

Caroline waved her protest away "You do You just don't realize it yet"