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His shoulders tightened After aor because of the way I have changed?"

"I told you to leave Believe it or not, I accepted blao"

"I had no intention of slighting you in front of the House of Lords"

"So you said, and I believe you," she said, ladling on reassurance "So I think--I hope--we can simply be honest with each other, like the friends we once were, and with respect to the affection we once shared"

He

"I’ his head

"Of course," she said lightly "I’ve co very like Juliet and Ro that ere never tested by life Our love was too passionate, like a suree I think ould have had children by now," he said evenly "We would have fallen more deeply in love I would have confessed why I iven me, because that’s what people in love do"

There was a fierce, intense spark in his eye that ht have happened that way My point is that we can’t pretend that those emotions can be reawakened They cannot I truly think that the courts would be willing to grant us a divorce, even if they rarely grant divorce They do so in extraordinary cases"

"The extraordinary case being etic "Even if you never walked anyone down the plank"

"Or forced any woh that they think it is so"

She didn’t care for the tight control he kept over himself, she realized It was almost better when he used to lose his temper and shout Now the very air around his head see, and yet he didn’t raise his voice an iota

"You want e can be dissolved" He said it flatly

"No!" She half-shouted that

He didn’t reply

"Of course I don’t want anyone to think that you are--that you are those things Indeed, I’m so relieved that you are not I think just the fact that youwell, you look quite different than you used to, Jae And you’re tattooed Your voice" Her own voice trailed off and she gestured aiether"

"Why not?"

She aler that I aed the estate and built the ceramics and fabric concerns I make lists No"--she corrected herself--"I make lists within lists Life is sohas a proper place"

"I do not understand why your abilities as an estate ressively, so she tried to explain "I take a great ht te room installed so that the servants didn’t have to haul water up the stairs; this way it coht from the copper in the scullery My baths are scented with three drops of prirance that’s made for me on the Staffordshire estate"

James didn’t look impressed