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He just stared at her, his dark brows co to decide thehere in town With the Royles," she told hih he hadn’t yet asked "We are here for five days – Cecily Royle, my cousins Sarah and Iris, and I" She waited for a nition in his eyes, then said, "You don’t rereat many cousins," he pointed out

"Sarah is the one with the thick, dark hair and eyes"

"Thick eyes?" hea tiny smile

"Marcus"

He chuckled "Very well Thick hair Dark eyes"

"Iris is very pale Strawberry blond hair?" she prompted "You still don’t recall"

"She comes from that family of flowers"

Honoria winced It was true that her uncle Williahters Rose, Marigold, Lavender, Iris, and Daisy, but still

"I knoho Miss Royle is," Marcus said

"She’s your neighbor You have to knoho she is"

He just shrugged

"At any rate, we are here in Caht we could all use a bit of i s?"

Honoria wondered why feo to school "She bribed two professors into allowing us to listen to their lectures"

"Really?" He sounded curious And dubious

"The life and times of Queen Elizabeth," Honoria recited dutifully "And after that, so in Greek"

"Do you speak Greek?"

"Not a one of us," she admitted "But the professor was the only other one illing to speak to females" She rolled her eyes "He intends to deliver the lecture twice in a row We must wait in an office until the students leave the lecture hall, lest they see us and lose all sense of reason"

Marcus nodded thoughtfully "It is nearly ientleman to keep hisfeht he was serious for about two seconds She lance in his direction before she burst out with a snort of laughter "Oh, please," she said, giving hiht punch in the arm Such familiarities were unheard of in London, but here, with Marcus

He was practically her brother, after all

"How fares your mother?" he asked