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him?”
“I teach Pallas,” she explained. “I teach music at her
school, Cheddall.”
He shot her a sidelong look. “Ah, yes, Pallas. And do
you get on with her?”
“Very well,” Kate said. “That’s why I am here.”
“And ... the young man? He is your brother? Is that
why he is here? Because of Pallas?”
“They’re friends,” she said carefully.
Jean-Paul lit a cigarette, after offering them to her.
For a while he smoked in silence. Then he said, “Pallas
thinks herself in love with him, perhaps?” His tone was
diffident, almost embarrassed.
She shrugged. “I really couldn’t say. I don’t have her
confidence in this matter.”
He looked sharply at her. Kate met his gaze directly
and frankly.
He sighed. “I see. But perhaps you have your
brother’s?”
“No,” said Kate firmly, “I’ve never discussed her with
Sam. After all, it’s a very private subject.”
He laughed incredulously. “Love is never private,
Miss Caulfield. It is, above all else, a family matter. That
is why, as soon as I knew I loved Pallas, I spoke to her
brother upon the subject.”
She came to a halt and stared at him, with total
disbelief. “You love Pallas? But she’s only sixteen; years
younger than you. Almost a child, still.”
“She will be seventeen in two months,” he said. “My
mother was married when she was sixteen. I was born
