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Updated: May 25, 2025
Your only safety now lies in his continuing to believe that you are unsuspicious. Above all, do your best to seem to fall in with his wishes, however strange or unreasonable they may seem. It will be only a few days more before I can claim you for my own, and laugh at his pretensions. A curious love-letter; yet it was Sofia's first. If it made her thoughtful, it made her illogically happy as well.
Sofia's mistrustful eyes reconnoitred every corner of the room, and reckoned it empty. Again obedient to undisputed impulse, she stepped inside and shut the door. The spring-latch of the American lock found its socket with a soft click. Thereafter, silence, no sound in the boudoir, none from the room beyond.
When at length he regained consciousness, it was to find his head pillowed in Sofia's lap, her soft fingers caressing his brow, her tearful eyes looking into his, and to hear her whisper: "Mauro mio!" Just at this moment the Duke de Oviedo approached, no one knew whence. White with jealousy but steady and cool, he quietly remarked: "Madame, I ought to kill you both, but that my rank precludes.
Without looking round, but with an inscrutable smile, Prince Victor took the girl in his arms again and held her close. "You rang, sir?" "Oh, are you there, Nogam? Is the apartment ready for the Princess Sofia?" "Quite ready, sir." "Be good enough to conduct her to it." Again Prince Victor kissed Sofia's forehead, then let her go. "Good-night, my child."
We were scarcely aware of one another's names and here was Marie Ivanovna thrusting all these personalities upon us. Sister Sofia's red-rimmed eyes glittered with pleasure but she only said: "Oh, dear, I'm very sorry." Sister K who was always without tact made a most uncomfortable remark: "Poor Mr.!..." That, I believe, was what we were all feeling.
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