Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart

Author:Mary Stewart
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
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Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

An esperance so obstinately strong,

That does invert the attest of eyes and ears;

As if those organs had deceptious functions,

Created only to calumniate …

Isn’t that what you mean?’

He smiled again, more naturally. ‘Yes, exactly, though I can’t say it puts it much more clearly. Poor Troilus – he says it better later on, you know—

If beauty have a soul, this is not she …

If there be rule in unity itself,

This is not she …

But I was luckier than Troilus, wasn’t I? For me, the rules did hold good – that no one who looks and moves and speaks as you do could be the bitch you seemed to be. But it was hell while it lasted, reason and instinct at war, and both violated.’ He turned his head. ‘You do understand, don’t you?’

‘Of course. Didn’t it happen to me too? I thought you were a beast and a murderer, I was scared of you, and yet – this happened.’

‘This happened,’ he repeated, ‘and reason goes out of court – for both of us.’

‘Yes.’

He said slowly, looking down at the dark opaque shifting of the water: ‘But you got the question wrong, Charity. You didn’t really think I was going to throw that one at you again, did you, before I’d explained why I still had the right to an answer?’

‘I got it wrong? You weren’t going to ask where David was?’

‘No.’

‘What were you going to ask, then?’

He stood, watching the water, leaning on his elbows on the low wall. He said, heavily, for the fourth time:

‘Who’s Johnny?’

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