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“Mr. Brandon, I must confess to a certain…surprise at having received your letter.

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“It is most unusual for a schoolmistress to spend time alone with the parent of one of her girls,” she observed.

“I seldom trouble myself with what is or is not unusual, Miss de Coverdale,” Oliver replied. “I wished to speak to you alone and perceived this to be the best way of doing that.”

“But what did you wish to speak to me about?”

Oliver sent her a mocking glance. “Do you really need to ask that, given the nature of our first aquaintance?”

The Guardian's Dilemma

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