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Emma was at her side with renant "What was that all about?"

"Nothing, really," Henryto attempt to brazen it out nonetheless

Emma snorted her disbelief

"No, really He just, ummm--he told me to behave myself"

"To behave yourself?" Emma said doubtfully

"You know, not tolike that"

"Now that is a clanker if ever I heard one," Emma retorted "Even Dunford must realize it would be i room with only me for company"

Henry smiled weakly

"It is apparent, however," Eet the truth out of you, so I won't waste "

"Thank you," Henryrooside Eht he would tell her he loved her She could feel it

Chapter 18

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Henry clutched at the folds of her dressing gown as she glanced at the clock on her bedside table She was a fool for going along with this, an idiot for being so in love with hih she knew her behavior was beyond indecent She chuckled wryly to herself when she remembered how unconcerned with etiquette she'd been back at Stannage Park Unconcerned and unknowing A fortnight in London hadlady was not to do, it was let a man into her bedroom, especially when the rest of the house was dark and asleep

But she couldn't seeh maidenly fear to refuse hiht were two distinctly different things, and desire inning out over propriety by a vast in

11:58

She sat down on the bed and then, realizing where she was, jumped up as if burned "Cal her arain As she paced across the rooht of her stern countenance, and then uncrossed her ar on her bed, but there was no need to look quite so forbidding