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"Shh, I’," she said

"Jane, listen, so and told Mrs Wattlesbrook, and I had to toss it out thisaround you

"You’re not hanging around er, Jane"

"Martin, please, I’o raving ain all afternoon I haven’t sewn a thing since junior high Horay shorts that ripped at the butt seam the first time I sat down, and I haven’t played pianoforte since I quit froe twelve, and I haven’t read a book in the e, so you see what ain his spade "You’ve coain when there is no one else to flirt with"

Huh! thought Jane

He snapped a dead branch off the trunk

Huh! she thought again She stood and started to walk away

"Wait" Martin hopped after her, grabbing her elbow "I saw you with those actors, parading around the grounds thisI hadn’t seen you with them before In the context And it bothered o in for this stuff, do you?" Jane shrugged

"You do?"

"More than I want to, though you’ve beenit seem unnecessary lately"

Martin squinted up at a cloud "I’ve never understood the women who come here, and you’re one of them I can’t make sense of it"

"I don’t think I could explain it to a man If you were a woman, all I’d have to say is ‘Cohn Firth in a wet shirt’ and you’d say, ‘Ah

"Ah I h at the Cohn Firth thing And he didn’t And now the silencefor the weight to drop on the other side

Then she s odor of ending This wasn’t just a first fight She’d been in this position tooup with h to require breaking up?"

Oh Ouch She took a step back on that one Perhaps it was her dress that allowed her to compose herself more quickly than normal She curtsied