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“Did you steal my hairpins?” she asked in a low voice at dinner, under cover of the shuffling between courses. Eugenides sat to her right, Eddis to her left. There was a friendly baron across the table, Eddis’s unfriendly Minister of War on his left, and an uneasy ally of the crown on his other side, all within plausible hearing distance. Eugenides looked, unaccountably, delighted to have been caught. That grin flashed across his face and he met her eyes quite without shame. “You have lovely hair,” he whispered, and his hand uncurled between them to reveal the pins. Five of them, and she had not felt even one slip out.

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