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"You wouldn’t know true love if it hit you on the side of the head," Ja his arms over his chest

"Well, you are no more of an expert Don’t tell me that you feel true love for Bella, because I know perfectly well you don’t You are infatuated with those enor to everyone on Oxford Street"

"Look here," Ja that word It’s not polite"

"Bubbies!" Theo repeated, just stopping herself froue at him She was seventeen, after all She had to act like a lady "I knohat you see in Bella," she contented herself with saying "And it isn’t love"

"Bella’s attributes are not a matter for our conversation," James retorted

Theo laughed "Then her pretty face? I don’t think so!"

"No , if not you?" she said, relaxing back into the corner

"NotI have to a brother," Theo said, feeling a little sleepy "Can you wake idly in his own corner and stared at her Even with the die he could see the line of her thigh Not to mention her bubbies, breasts, whatever

Trevelyan had certainly noticed the over and jerking the e

She would not marry Trevelyan Not under any circumstances

Even--even if he really did have to

Carlton House

Residence of the Prince of Wales

To Theo’s extreme annoyance, James not only didn’t accompany her to the Prince of Wales’s private musicale, but also didn’t bother to show up until it was almost time for supper

"Where have you been? You were supposed to be here hours ago," she hissed at hiroup to the other side of the drawing room, out of earshot "Claribel has turned herself into a plaster and applied herself to Geoffrey; he’s hardly had a moment to breathe, let alone notice I am in the room"

"Well, I’m here now," Jao coat with dark green velvet lapels, entirely appropriate for a private musicale hosted by the Prince of Wales But there was so about his face, and his eyes