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] ] ] "You have not!" cried Catherine.
] ] I think it's even more endearing that even when she is exclaiming, even when she is upset, her words are every bit as sanguine as she usually is; even though she must know that he speaks the truth, she says that it couldn't possibly be so.

] Do you really think so? I took it as more of a horrible realization that you don't want to admit is true. i.e. This cannot be happening to me; I don't believe it... though of course you really do.

Yes, exactly. I believe we may be thinking alike here but expressing it in slightly different ways. :-)

] But tell me, will there be plenty of horrid abbeys on this road as well? I can't do without at least one corpse in a closet.