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Saly delicate, very different froold and ruby faers and which she’d lost in the canal the day Maria drowned The er at the vicar’s command the world shrank and hushed, like theraucously in a tree at dusk settled suddenly into the calht She’d still wobbled when they’d kneeled and his hand had caught hers and just for a moment he’d shown an emotion, even if it orry

Married

Again

Edge was now her husband

‘My dear, dear Sam I’m so very, very happy’ Janet clasped Sa a now-hout the brief cereeneral’s house, nestling under Poppy’s arh I know you were forever at daggers drahen you were young, but sometimes that is the best way You know the worst of each other which is somatrimony, you know’

That ht as she patted Janet’s hand She was still too shocked to do more than sratulatory toast that followed the brief cere with the sahts

Married Again What have I done?

This was either a most brilliant move on her part or an impulsive recipe for disaster This ti from which she could easily fall and break her neck

She squirmed with the sao since she’d entered Edge’s tent She’d expected hiood lecture at worst or with a stolid ‘I a froirl’

She should be content, happy Edge ood, conscientious, intelligent Even kind when he let his shell fall away Not to mention as handso very valuable to the devil for that skill

There was no reason to be shaking with fear