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Except for one final look of indignation, both William and Alexandra returned to their perfect posture and finished eating I laughed tohow ineffective such a soft repri children I knew back in DC Jake, Grand to hold back a wild colt with a bridle made of thread

Leanna askedarts She seemed to deliberately skirt any questions about ave my father when he spoke to me and from the way she stared atmore and more about me and hi around their house so often?

Maybe it ishful thinking or maybe it was just raw paranoia, but there was a curiosity in her eyes that grew more and more prominent as the afternoon went on

Afterward, my father offered to show me his rare book collection Alexandra helped Leanna with the dishes and Willia behind us

"I'lad you decided to come," my father told me

"I don't know exactly why I did," I said

He laughed

"Oh, I think it's probably natural I knoould have done the sauess I was more stoic or fatalistic You see why I'h

"Life's a stage," I quipped

We stood there, staring at his books, neither of us really looking at them William became bored with our conversation and wandered off to find his sister

"Leanna doesn't know about me then?"

"Not yet"

"How did you explainaround your house so often?" I asked

"I told her you were very shy and just trying to build up the courage to approach me," he replied I looked at him askance

"Somehow, I don't expect she would believe that"