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"I've gone one one mad"

"My vote's on you," Jans of derangement"

"I don't believe this I just don't believe this" Blake threw up his ararden! Add a neing to the house! What do I matter? I just own the place"

Caroline turned to James with concern as Blake disappeared around the corner "How angry do you suppose he is?"

"On a scale of one to ten?"

"Er…if you think his mood would fit on such a scale"

"It wouldn't"

She chewed on her lower lip "I was afraid of that"

"But I wouldn't worry," Ja wave of his hand "He'll co his life disrupted He's a bit grumpy, but he's not entirely unreasonable"

"Are you certain of that?"

Janized her question as rhetorical and took the shovel from her hands "Here now," he said, "tell ave hi plant and knelt down to watch his work "Mind that you don't break the roots," she said Then a ry with me?"

James didn't reply for a few moments, and the shovel stilled in his hands as he obviously pondered how to answer her question "He's not angry with you," he finally said

She gave a little laugh "We were obviously not watching the sary with you" He stepped on the edge of the shovel and pushed it further down in the dirt "He's afraid of you"

Caroline started coughing so hard Jaht her breath she said, "I beg your pardon"

There was another long ed once"

"I know"

"Do you knohat happened?"

She shook her head "Just that she died"

"Blake loved her more than life itself"

Caroline sed, surprised by the squeezing pain in her heart elicited by James's statement

"They'd known each other all their lives," he continued "They worked together for the War Office"