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"Ignorance is a poor excuse for bliss," Søren said, looking pointedly at her "Tell sley’s dark brown eyes They stared at each other for a long quiet sley what had happened when she’d left Søren And Kingsley had never told her In her sley did in that time and why he’d left when she had

"That sounded like an order," Nora said to Kingsley

"It was," Kingsley said, as accusto Søren’s orders now as she

"Who starts?" she asked hisley said to Nora The playfulness had left his deht of secrets in his eyes

"You left after sley said

"No I was afraid to ask," Nora confessed "I thoughtI thought all kinds of things that year I think I went a little crazy for a while But I guess you would too if you were trapped in a convent surrounded by nuns with nothing but your thoughts to keep you cosley reminded her

"And yes, there was a nun in h

"This is sley said "Go on"

Nora took a breath, got coan "It was a dark and storht"

"Eleanor," Søren said

"It was," she said "I’ht, it was dark and stormy, remember?"

Søren nodded "I remember Go on"

Nora closed her eyes, let herself drift back to that night, that terrible night and that year, that dark and stormy year

She enty-six years old

Søren had just returned home from Rome

And she was in the worst pain of her life