CHAPTER XVI. Full as she was of him, it felt good to shower her kill out of her hair. Her father, her own father! She remembered now a verse from the Psalms her father had always been quoting; but now she recited it with perfect understanding. She tolerated spitballs in her curly hair and had to buy a new backpack when hers was stolen. ’ Her gaze followed the butler, who was moving towards the door. Something is feeding upon them. 55 <7> THE MANOR, 1349 They moved to the country manor in the autumn of 1349, when plague was still raging through the city. Only she hadn’t. “What are you doing here? How dare you come to my rooms!” The man stepped into the middle of the room. The hansom drove off. It was a boy baby cooing in swaddling clothes, a baby who had just been born to the butcher's servant across the alley, the maid Isobella who trailed behind, beaming. Why had he kissed her? What had led him into that? Neither love nor passion— utter blankness so far as reducing the act to terms.
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