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“Of course you are It’s what you do best”

She scowled at hiory o and a half years her elder, and he lived to vex her He always had The two of them were a bit cut off froory was aler than Francesca, and a full ten froest son As a result, he and Hyacinth had always been a bit on their own, a bit of a duo

A bickering, poking, frog-in-the-bed sort of duo, but a duo nonetheless, and even though they had outgrown the worst of their pranks, neither see the other

“I thought I heard someone come in,” Hyacinth said

He smiled blandly “It was me”

“I realize that now” She placed her hand on the door-knob and pulled “If you will excuse me”

“You’re in a snit today”

“I’m not in a snit”

“Of course you are It’s—”

“Not what I do best” Hyacinth ground out

He grinned “You’re definitely in a snit”

“I’m—” She clamped

her teeth together She was not going to descend to the behavior of a three-year-old “I a back into my room now I have a book to read”

But before she could make her escape, she heard hiht”