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"Oh no," Daddy said, his face, losing its robust color put there from all the wine he had drunk

"Oh yes I kept trying to get her to behave, but it was no use Belinda will always be Belinda, Daddy We ht as well accept it"

He nodded, sadly

"Well, I tried I had an idea and I tried" He looked up at et some sleep," he said

"Don't worry, Daddy You'll figure so out yet," I said He smiled quickly and patted me on the shoulder

"Right, right," he said

"As I suspected, Nelson Childs is looking for a woman of some substance," I added as I left the office "Belinda just isn't right for him"

"I see," Daddy muttered behind

ood prospect for me His attention was committed solely to Belinda as usual "However, I' else up my sleeve," Daddy said

I turned on the stairway

"What?"

"Give me a few days to work out the details," he replied cryptically I thought he etting Belinda and Nelson Childs together, but he had an entirely different prospect lined up, and this one was, in his terht it s and he proposed the idea to Belinda himself

"So we can avoid any further

s and bad behavior," he explained when three days later, he announced his decision to have the

"Youto wish for no further bad behavior from Belinda"