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Good gracious, she had a difficult enough time with faults she did possess
“Why don’t you look it up in your Italian dictionary?”
“It’s not listed,” she lied It wasn’t really such an egregious fib The dictionary had listed several possible translations, certainly enough for Hyacinth to truthfully clai
She waited for hi as she should have done, but it seemed like an eternity And she just couldn’t keep quiet “I could, if you wish, write to overness and ask for a more exact definition, but she’s not the most reliable of correspondents—”
“Meaning?”
“Meaning I haven’t written to her in three years,” Hyacinth adh I’m quite certain she would come to my aid now It’s just that I have no idea how busy she is or when she iven birth to twins—”
“Why does this not surprise me?”
“It’s true, and heaven only kno long it will take her to respond Twins are an uncommon amount of work, or so I’m told, and…” Her voice lost so to her She stole a glance at his face and finished, anyway, ht of the words, and there wasn’tthem “Well, I don’t think she has the means for a baby nurse,” she said, but her voice had trailed off by the end of it
Gareth held silent for what see, “If what you say is correct, and the jewels are still hidden—and that is no certainty, given that she hid them”—his eyes floated briefly up as he did the o, then surely they will reet an accurate translation frooverness”
“You could wait?” Hyacinth asked, feeling her entire head move forward and doith disbelief “You could actually wait?”
“Why not?”
“Because they’re there Because—” She cut herself off, unable to do anything other than stare at him as if he were mad She knew that people’ssince learned that hardly anyone’s ine that anyone could hen faced with this
Good heavens, if it were up to her, they’d be scaling the wall of Clair House that night
“Think about this,” Hyacinth said, leaning forward “If he finds those jewels between now and whenever you find the tiive yourself”
He said nothing, but she could tell that she’d finally got through to him