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"Not now Please do not ask me to tell you I have not yet had

time fully to consider it," and he blushed still more

"And so you will not tell me?" A muscle twitched in her face and

she pushed back the chair she was holding "Well then, cohts, and, faster than

usual, went on in front of him

He fancied that her mouth was unnaturally compressed in order to

keep back the tears He was asha hurt her, and yet

he knew that the least weakness on his part would mean disaster,

ie, would bind hi, and silently followed her to the princess's cabinet