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"You just told "

"Only because I didn’t think you wanted to"

"I don’t want to"

"Of course not," her mother said smoothly, "but you do want to spend tiood Billie pasted a s else?"

"If you can convince her to read your agricultural treatise over your shoulder," her h the air

Delicately like a bullet, Billie thought "I’ll help with so," she conceded

"Oh, that will be iana exclaimed "And so very helpful You’ll havethan I"

"Not really," Billie said frankly

"But you’ve been to house parties"

"Well, yes, but…" Billie didn’t bother finishing her sentence Georgiana looked so happy It would be like kicking a puppy to tell Georgiana that she had hated being dragged to house parties with theira word, she certainly hadn’t enjoyed herself She really didn’t like traveling She’d learned that much about herself

And she did not enjoy the coers She wasn’t shy; not at all She just preferred being a people she knew

People who knew her

Life was so erton said to Billie "You don’t want a house party You don’t like house parties But I am your mother, and I have decided to host one Therefore, you have no choice but to attend Why not take the opportunity to ht actually enjoy?"

"But I’ to enjoy it"

"You certainly won’t if you approach it with that attitude"

Billie took a ue her point and defend herself and tell her mother that she would not be spoken to as if she was a child…

"I would be delighted to assist Georgiana," Billie said tightly, "as long as I get so you away frolared at her "You shouldn’t mock it It’s exactly that sort of book that has enabled me to increase productivity at Aubrey Hall by a full ten percent Not to mention the i better now that --"