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Looking at her

Watching the way she hugged her ar her ht, and yet soether, the corners tightening with hidden emotion

"Where were you?" she asked

He couldn’t stop looking at her

"Tonight," she clarified "Where did you go that you got so wet?"

He glanced down at hi that he was soaked

Hoas that possible?

"I went to the opera," he told her

"Did you?" She hugged her arh he could not be sure, it looked as if she htly closer to the"I was supposed to attend," she said "I wanted to go"

He moved, too, closer to his"Why didn’t you?"

She hesitated, her attentionas she said, "If you must know, I knew the prince would be there, and I did not wish to see hi He moved closer to the , then-

There was a knock on his door

"Don’tup at her He shut his , then strode to the door and opened it

"Your bath is ready, sir," his butler announced

"Thank you Could you, ah, have the for me? I’ll be a few more minutes"

"I shall instruct the foot a blanket, sir?"

Harry looked down at his hands Funny, he couldn’t quite feel them properly "Er, yes That would be et it at once"

While the butler went off in search of a blanket, Harry hurried back over to theand wrenched it open Olivia now had her back to hihtly against the side of the aperture She had also sought a blanket, he noticed, so soft and powdery blue and-

He shook his head What did her blanket o"

Olivia glanced down at the sound of his voice, just in tiain She waited another half minute or so, and then he was back, the wood of thescraping as he pushed it back up

"Oh, you got a blanket, too," she said, as if that were sonificant