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He rewarded her with a purse-lipped sone to such extremes for a moment of privacy The rest of us would have been e"

"Stop it," Billie ordered

Andrew looked up, laughing even as he affected a frown "Do you really want to take that tone, Billie-goat? I am the one on terra fir her very best to be civil and reasonable "We would very much appreciate your help"

"Well, since you asked so nicely," Andrewto kill hi to break his other arh There was no way that Andrew could have heard them, but she looked down at hi, his good hand on his hip

"What is it now?" George de into a curious frown "I’m not sure if it has occurred to either of you, but this isn’t the sort of thing that’s easy to do one-handed"

"Take it out of the sling," George said, but his last words were drowned out by Billie’s shriek of "Don’t take it out of the sling!"

"Do you really want to stay on the roof?" George hissed

"And have hiht have joked about breaking Andrew’s good arm, but really The man was a sailor in the navy It was essential that his bone healed properly

"You’dto marry you," she shot back "Andrehere we are He can go get help if we need it"

"By the tiets back with an able-bodied man, we’ll have been up here alone for several hours"

"And I suppose you’ve such a high opinion of your ed to coe hissed, "any hly uncoether for a second of confusion Was he co her moral rectitude? But then --

Oh!

"You are despicable," she seethed Since that was her only choice of reply Somehow she didn’t think – You have no idea how many men would like to conity and wit

Or honesty

"Andrew," George called down, in that haughty I-am-the-eldest-son voice of his, "I will pay you one hundred pounds to take off that sling and fix the ladder into place"

One hundred pounds?

Billie turned on him ild disbelief "Are you insane?"