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'What's wrong with her?'
The Youngest of the Sylfinnier thought as she watched the foreigner retreat from her side.
It had never happened before. Staying in the same place only the two of them without any other family member in a partially quiet ambience was not how their meetings alone commonly proceeded.
Theressa was uncomfortable from the beginning.
The moment she announced her desire to stay with her sister to accomplish her hidden intentions, her Father made an unsettling comment about the object she needed to enter the chambers of her Sister. And even before that, she had seen the pain in her Sister's eyes as she honestly confessed to the Duke her concerns about failing as a woman and a Lady because she had witnessed the difference between herself and Marianne.
