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She seized the opportunity to present her cover-story ‘I’ate Lord Wyndha to interview you I hadn’t dared hope to catch up with you so soon If I could ask you for your views on the situation’

He glided a step towards her ‘What paper do you represent?’

‘The Tile alternate she’d ever visited

‘And how did you know that I’d co very predatory about his face now

‘Well, of course, I had no idea,’ she rattled off hastily, reaching into her reticule ‘It was a total surprise tothat on hearing of his death, you naturally hurried to his do your condolences to his--’

His hand caught her wrist ‘No guns, littleNo, this is all going to be very nice and quiet, and you’re going to tellon’

She could lie to hiet that cool, elegant, well-gloved, slender hand off her wrist ‘Take your hands offinto her voice ‘Or you will regret it’

He paused ‘You’re very self-assured,’ he said, and for the first ti other thanself-satisfaction in his voice Perhaps an edge of uncertainty ‘I wonder Are you perhaps a little more than you look?’

‘Aren’t we all?’ Irene answered

‘And is there soonize,’ she said She’d got the measure of his suspicion now She’d only met lesser Fair Folk before, but they practically defined ‘so devious that they’d fall over if they tried to walk in a straight line’ This one was thinking in teraive naive is a degree of cooperation’

He released her wrist and raised a delicate eyebrow ‘You intriguethe ht find her useful loud and clear – and intrigue had nothing to do with it Instead, she nodded towards the safe ‘Perhaps we are both looking for the sa, sir’