She’s had less time to spend with Iala, since the Christmas holidays; so it comes as a surprise to Proserpina to find that her friend has an enemy.<\/p>\n
“She did start it,” Iala points out.<\/p>\n
“She couldn’t have known you were new money,” Proserpina says.<\/p>\n
Iala’s eyes crackle. “Oh, are you going to start now too, Macnair?”<\/p>\n
“I’m teasing, Iala.”<\/p>\n
“Well, Ernestine Batten wasn’t,” Iala declares. “She’s a prig and a snoot and I won’t spend the next three years looking up her aristocrat’s nose!”<\/p>\n
Proserpina says nothing more: it isn’t her affair. Until Radiane brings the girl to boxing practice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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