To flinch away from it, to smother it before it could leave Sophie’s lips, would be to show herself a coward, to be unworthy of trust, and so, to be unworthy of further shared revelations. But she was also aware that there was no way to stop it now. Suddenly, Leonora was unsure that she wanted to hear Sophie’s unuttered truth. So I am familiar with the many ways in which mourning can become a burden more trying than the grief that may underlie it. “Your husband died in the Baltic War, did he not?” Her very personal curiosity could easily be misunderstood as mere nosiness. “Y-yes.” It would not do to let Sophie know how very much Leonora knew of this. You know, of course, that I was married.” 1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 45Ĭautiously now, Leonora! “What is strange about it?”
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