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"Is it going to be like this froy

"Have you told le prêtre?"

"Non He has too much on his mind now"

"You try to protect us all," Juliette said, and he heard the love in her voice--the love and the exasperation "You must let someone take care of you Let me take care of you"

"I’m fine I asley sed He hated lying to his Juliette She was as much his confessor as Søren was Nora’s

"He’s been better And non, she is not back yet Juliette" He paused to gather his words With so ive her soether"

He heard that h of hers all the way from Haiti

"No wonder you sound so tired"

"It’s part of it, oui" He laughed, too, but the laugh quickly died "My Jewel, you know--"

"I know," she said quickly and siment or fear in her voice "I know you love him I know he loves you, too"

"He loves me? Froet we love more than one person You do, she does, he doesI do"

"You’ve fallen in love already?"

"Bien sûr You’ll have to share ht"

He pictured her now, his Juliette, standing on the balcony staring at the ocean, her statuesque beauty, her dark skin glowing in the fading evening sunlight They’d e of the ocean, and he couldn’t see rising water without thinking of her He’d never forget the first ti a native bird’s nest with stones Juliette decided to give the rocks at the spoiled scions of white American tourists He’d been doohts are yours"