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"Haven’t I been saying it all along? I told you it was probably one of that irlfriends, didn’t I? Oh!" She leapt to her feet

"Adrienne"

"What now?"

Oh, bother, Lydia brooded Well buck up, she told herself, knowing fro for a good fight with the Hawk, and that she would be et one "Hawk left for Uster at dawn"

"For how long?" Adrienne gritted

"He didn’t say Adrienne! Wait! We need to sort out what brought you here!" But Adrienne was no longer listening

Lydia sighed as Adrienne storant pigheaded pain-in-the-ass Neanderthal …"

CHAPTER 23

JUST WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM, ADRIENNE DE SIMONE? SHE asked herself furiously

She shrugged and sighed before forlornly advising a nearby rosebush, "I see for the ely in the soft suly poured the whole of it upon her rapt audience

"I know he’s been with a lot of women But he’s not like Eberhard Of course, probably there’s nobody like Eberhard except maybe a five-headed monster from the jaws of hell"

When the rosebush didn’t accuse her of beingpoetical, she suh and continued "I can’t understand a blasted thing about the man First he wants me--I mean, come on, he burned my queen to keep me here, which didn’t really work apparently, but the intention was there He saves h it was kind of indirectly his fault it was in danger to begin with, and then he refuses to see h, he just up and leaves without so much as a fare-thee-well!"

Adrienne plucked irritably at the rosebush