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dream came back to him.

But Angie was going on, talking almost automatically as she stared at him with
still deeper concern.

"тАФWhen I let you oversleep it was because I thought you looked so tired. But
everyone in the castle is going to have to work like beavers todayтАФ"

"No beavers," he said, still stupid. "Fourteenth century. England. No beavers
here."

"Bees with their little tails on fire, then! If we're going to get the castle ready in
time for Geronde and Brian's weddingтАФ"

"The servants'll do all that," he said, and once again his voice came out wrong.
"They won't let me do any of it."

"That's not the point and you know it. They've got to see you looking furious, as
if you'd have to do it yourself if they don't. They want you all worked up and
involved, so they know they ought to be all worked up and involved, tooтАФ
they're our two best friends, after all, and everybody knows it. All worked up
because the banns had to be read again to have it here by extraordinary Church

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permission and our dirty old chapel cleaned and refixed in no time at all so that
Geronde can have the Mass she wants following the weddingтАФand everything
else."

There was no good answer to this. It was all true, so he said nothing.

"And here you lie," she went on, "three hours past sun-up, in visitor-greeting
clothes, doing nothing!"

He could hardly deny his clothes or the fact he was doing nothing. So he said
nothing. Angie would change gears in a moment. She herself was wearing an
old, mulberry-colored gownтАж everyday clothesтАФ

"Jim," she said, firmly, "what is it? First the dress-up. Now you scare me half to
death saying what you did."

He had to give her a reasonable answer. The truth.

"They're both part of the same thing," he said. He sat up, swinging his legs over
the edge of the bed so that he sat beside her. He put an arm around her shoulders.
"Carolinus came toward the end of the night. He had something to tell me. But
he made me promise not to tell anyone elseтАФeven you."