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But either way his words had hurt, and she knew she would find it difficult to shut them out of her mind

Of course he would not stop her fro Max! Not in his horown man with a mind of his own, and as far as Marietta was concerned their arrangeed

“You’re looking tired, Max”

Harold frowned down at hihed “What are you now, cousin? My nursemaid? As you see, I a an invalid in bed, I think”

“Yes, and I a why you are out of bed when the doctor said you were to stay there for the present”

Max gave him a look

“I’m not impressed,” Harold said “You don’t intimidate me, Max, I know you too well”

“Unfortunately I can see you’re dying to say so to me, why don’t you say it?”

“I saw Miss Greentree leaving” Harold fiddled with the chain of his pocketwatch, suddenly uncomfortable

“Yes, she was visiting me,” Max replied smoothly, but Harold noticed the faint flush in his cousin’s lean cheeks

There, he was right to warn her off! he told hi her web around his cousin, drawing him in while he was in a vulnerable state Harold had made sohters of Aphrodite, and although they were respectable enough on the outside, beneath the surface there were dark rus Max would be much better off without those kinds of complications when he had so , then Harold ad him

“I hope you’re not thinking of behaving foolishly, Max”

Max frowned “And ould I be? I a out for a wife, if that’s orries you, cousin I have far tooa helpless woman into my life”

Helpless? “I…good Because Marietta Greentree would not do as your wife, even in your present…eh, circumstances”

“You are a snob, cousin”