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“Don’t be stupid, Maggie. The answer must be as obvious to you as it is to me. I have arranged to be married on the sixteenth, and that’s what I mean to do.”
Оглавление“But you haven’t got a bride,” she said incredulously. “What are you going to do? Call in one of your conquests? Will any woman do?”
The strange light was there in his eyes again. “Not any woman,” he said. “You.”
Something caught in her throat and she forced herself to give a brief choking laugh.
“I’m not laughing,” he said quietly.
“You’re right. It’s the unfunniest joke I’ve ever heard.”
“I was never further from making jokes in my life. You don’t understand Spanish honor. The one who does the injury is the one who makes reparation. You have injured me, and it is you, and nobody else who must make it right.”
