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And then she did, too

And they were both just…giggling, really, until they had tears in their eyes

"Oh ht to have so?"

He wiped his eyes "Proper?"

"Like at a dance"

"We’ve already danced," he told her

"Only once, and you didn’t like me then"

"You didn’t like me, either," he reht about that, then nodded "That’s true"

Olivia winced "I was rather horrid, wasn’t I?"

"Well, yes," he adree with ood that you can be horrid when necessary It’s a useful skill"

She leaned on her elbow, settling her chin onto her hand "Funny, my brothers never seemed to think so"

"Brothers are like that"

"Were you?"

"Me? Never I encouraged it, actually The more horridly my sister behaved, the reat deal of trouble"

"You’re very crafty," she

"I’e of topic "How is it useful to kno to be horrid?"

"That is a very good question," he said solemnly

"You haven’t an answer, have you?"

"I have not," he adested

"And lose your respectability?"

"A spy, then"

"Even worse," he said, with great fir an utter flirt, but she was having far too land could have used someone like me I should have had the war tidied up in no tih, he sounded as if hetoo playful, about a topic that wanted no hus," she said

"It’s all right," he said "Sometimes one has to"

She wondered what he had seen, what he had done He’d been in the ari over uniforht Marched Killed

It was aline He rode superbly, and after this afternoon, she had firsthand knowledge of his strength and power, but still, she someho him as more cerebral than athletic Perhaps it was all those afternoons she’d seen hi swiftly across the page

"What do you do in there?" she asked