![]() "That explains it." He was silent for a moment, lost in some distant, pleasurable memory. Sebastian, who had begun to laugh, seemed struck by that last comment. ![]() She told one of them that a carriage horse had recently stepped on her foot, and she told the other that the butler had accidentally slammed her leg in the door." Gabriel took a swallow of brandy before finishing grimly, "No wonder she's a wallflower." Two of the fellows I went drinking with last night said they'd asked her to waltz on previous occasions. Not to mention peculiar: She goes to balls but never dances, only sits in the corner. Constitutionally incapable of guarding her tongue. ![]() Looking more and more interested, his father asked, "What is the problem with her, then?" ![]() Gabriel went to an inset sideboard to pour himself a brandy. ![]()
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