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‘I did that for your sake! Because I thought that you too had fallen in love with her’

‘And it was for your sake that I didn’t ask as going on’ There was a hint of self-reproach as well as compassion in Vere’s voice ‘I should have spoken more openly to you But you know that I am not as comfortable in my emotional skin as you are in yours I told myself that were I in your shoes I would want to choose the s rather than have you confront , but I had no idea what you were thinking I should have guessed’

‘How could you?’ Drax told hi himself for what that happened ‘It is a well-known fact that when a man falls passionately and deeply in love he is lost to all reason I assumed that because I love Sadie you must do the same I was jealous, bitterly so, but I felt I had to stick toSadie back to Dhurahn for you’

‘Have you told Sadie any of this?’

‘No I couldn’t bring myself to do so’

‘She is very distressed by your behaviour towards her,’ Vere told hiently

‘She told you that?’

Now Vere could snised the reason for the hostility in his twin’s voice ‘Not as such But it is plain to me that she is unhappy’

While they had been speaking the noise of the wind had been increasing, to the point where now they had to talk loudly to make themselves heard above it

‘We need to return to the city,’ Vere said ‘We don’t want to be caught out here in the storm’

‘I’ll drive Sadie backI shall want to do e get back is set in hand the arrangeised to her’

Suddenly they were both laughing, e and mutual happiness

As they stepped back, one of the workhness! The English girl has just driven out of the camp in one of the Land Rovers’

Drax released Vere and turned to look at the anxiousinto the tent

‘What?’