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"What happened?" she asked

He was shaking his head as he rose to his feet "It ca rooht was relief, although she had no idea why Her second thought went in quite the opposite direction If she’d heard the crash, then other people in the house would have heard it, too And if this other person happened to be upstairs, as her ate And if she did that, she hter in a state of considerable dishabille

But in truth herroom The door would be open, and it was the first room one came across at the bottoentleuard, the butler, three housemaids…

And no Olivia

She jumped to her feet, immediately awash in panic "My hair!"

"-is remarkably intact," he finished for her

She looked at hi somewhat astonished himself "It’s really almost"-he -"the same"

She hurried over to the oodness," she said Sally had outdone herself Barely a lock was out of place, and she could have sworn that Harry had pulled the whole mass of it down

Olivia pulled two hairpins out, repositioned and fastened them, then stood back to inspect her reflection Aside from her flushed cheeks, she looked entirely respectable And really, any nuh she probably needed to start co up with a new excuse

She looked over at Harry "Do I look presentable?"

He nodded But then he said, "Sebastian will know"

Her ave a one shouldered shrug There was soesture, as if to say-a woht answer your question in exhaustive detail, but this will do for ave her another one of those looks "He just will But don’t worry, he won’t say anything"

Olivia looked down at herself "Do you think the prince will know?"

"What does it matter if the prince knows?" Harry returned, a little snappishly

"I have my-" She had been about to say that she had her reputation to consider "Are you jealous?"

He looked at her as if she was slightly deranged "Of course I’s started to feel rather liquid, and she sighed "Really?"