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keep her sorrow and her worries at bay.

They returned when she handed Max over to the grooms. Roz looked almost as grim as she feltтАФshe
had worked two seasons on Sirialis, Cecelia remembered, and had a scrapbook on the Thornbuckle
family. "It'll never be the same," she muttered to Cecelia. "Young Buttons is a fine man, but he's
not his father."

"No . . . but Kevil will help him."

"He was hurt too, you know. Really badтАФhe might die."

"Kevil Mahoney?"

"That's what the newsvid said. If you can trust them. Damn those terrorists anyway; I don't know
why they have to make more trouble in the world, as if there's not enough."

"Lady CeceliaтАФ" That was Dale, more formal than usual. "You have a caller."

The last thing she wanted. She turned away, leaving Roz and the new girl working on Max, and
stripped off her gloves, tucking them in her belt.

He was lounging in the stable office, flipping through the stable feed records.

"Get out of that," Cecelia said, but without much heat. She herself had sneaked a look at the hay
receipts for other owners, wondering if they had a better source. Everyone snooped in stable
offices.

"You're looking splendid," Pedar Orregiemos said. "StillтАФterrible news, terrible news."

"Yes, it is." Cecelia sat down heavily in one of the battered leather chairs. "I'm still not
really grasping it."

"I came over because I knew you'd been close to both of them," Pedar said.


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Cecelia looked up sharply. "Both of them?"

"Bunny and Kevil, I mean. At least, that's what the word was, the past few years. People were even
twitting young George about it."

"About me and Kevil?"

He shrugged. "And why not?"

"Kevil and I are friends," Cecelia said, almost spitting the words out. "Friends, not lovers."
Well, only twice, after which they'd both agreed it wasn't working nearly as well as they'd hoped.