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I, don’t worry!" She ran over to give her a kiss "I shan’t go out with Mr Spenser after this evening YouReally youwoman"

"I ahts on the subject"

"I shall be entirely circuainst the orchard wall, waiting for her And despite all her resolutions, despite the stern talking-to she had given herself on the way down the stairs, despite her flirtation with Rafe and her conversation with Josie… I quickly

Her conscience was keeping up a furious inner co no better than a trollop! You kiss one brother during the afternoon and then…

He ca apple trees, and a hat pulled low She couldn’t see his eyes: were they expressionless, indifferent, as they had been at supper? But he spoke, and the slow scholar’s tone of him melted her bones "Lady Maitland I feared you would not arrive"

"Punctuality is the prerogative of kings," I royal, it would be presumptuous of lad to see you I feared that you had changed your ate

"Where shall we go tonight?"

"I thought perhaps we should leave the fair folk of Silchester to their own devices There is a pantomime in Mortimer"

"A pantomime! Isn’t it early for a pantomime? Why, we are still in October"

Gabe handed her into the carriage "In London pantomimes play every day for threea childish pleasure in a panto"

I her cloak in such a way that her breasts were not too naked in appearance

The carriage took off with a jolt She felt a thrum of panic: what if he expected to kiss her immediately? She tried to think of some sort of polite conversation "Have you ever seen Joseph Grimaldi?"

"The clown? I saw a performance of his last year I do believe that his rendition of ’Hot Codlins’ could give you and the lovely Cristobel a run for yourelse to say, and Gabe seeh he also showed no propensity to leap across the carriage and kiss her It was disconcerting She and Rafe had talked so easily this afternoon: was the current silence because a man interested in an available wo

But she couldn’t help but be cheered by the pantomime "Will it be Cinderella?" she asked "My sisters and I read about the play in Acker in Scotland"

"Very likely," Gabe said "It is the most popular panto, I believe I sahen it first appeared on Drury Lane… ten years ago that must have been"

"Do you enjoy theater other than pantoh I have never actedforward to playing a part"

"Mr Medley seeh Think of me: I have to play an innocent country est rake of them all," Gabe said "You trounce the city ladies, Belinda, and Mrs Loveit, and take home the prize"

"If Dorimant can be called a prize"

"My brother will play Dorimant well, don’t you think?"