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"It’s our bedchamber"

She wandered nervously to the heavily carved walnut bedstead "I’d heard that all aristocratic couples had separate bedrooton quite disapproved A frivolous waste of space and money, she said"

Ian opened another door "The boudoir in here is yours But you will sleep with ant roo chairs and a deepseat "My I suppose it will do"

"Curry will help you fit it out as you like Just tell hi to think Curry is a ician" Beth waited for hiain

"I think you take an awful risk," she said "I read soerous, because she exhales noxious futon said when I told her Mr Barrington slept beside her for thirty years and never once took sick"

Ian slid his ar her fro to attract money for their research"

"Is that what they did at the asylum?"

"They tried all kinds of experiments to cure my madness I never sahere any of theht they were helping"

Beth put her fists on his ar Your father locked you away, and those people tortured you in the nao to that asyluive your doctor, whoever he is, a piece of ers to her lips "I don’t want you part of that"

"Like you don’t want h Holborn aze "It has nothing to do with you I want youapart I want to res of my past" "You wish to create differentshe understood

"My s I want to remember you alone here with me, or in that pension in Paris You and h Holborn"

His words died and he began to rub his te in his eyes Beth put her hand over his "Don’t think of it"

"It plays over and over and over again, like a melody that won’t stop"