![]() Why don't you call the office and have someone bring it over? Gyer suggested as Earl made to leave.I want to go through next week's itinerary with you. As he started back in the direction of Pie's bed, he was brought to a halt by a voice too abrasive for this hallowed place, and sufficiently slurred to suggest the speaker had found a bar himself and drunk it dry. He left Athanasius to his void-watching and went back inside, thinking as he did so that this would be a fine time to find a bar and order up a stiff drink. And he wanted !so-before it was over-to see Armand. She might drive him out of here or worse. The most errant and awful thought came to him, that if he didn't stop being so damned stupid he might never see Armand. ![]() ![]() Yet he found himself staring senselessly at the delicate curve of her fingers, at the gilded nails and the ruby and emerald rings which flashed suddenly as if sparked with electric light. And the look was fierce, almost malicious. She looked up at him, her head still bowed, her hand hovering before her face. Nor was there any reluctance in her response to him. So he loved Merelan with a single-minded urgency which had been denied him far too long. He didn't even have to worry about an inopportune interruption from the baby sleeping in the spare crib in Dalma's wagon. It's safe enough, she murmured, and he clasped her with a passion that he had been aching to express but had sternly repressed. I've had her admitted for observation, Lucy said.She's on the second floor. John Cavendish frowned and changed the subject. ![]()
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