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crystal

[rowancrowned]

Do not misunderstand me, it is a tool, to our enemies, but since I have you in my grasp, I cannot suffer your ignorance.

[ a roundabout way of thinking of it. ]

She is. And there are lessons she will be able to teach you that will come better from her.

crystal

[rathercommon]

[ Plucky as ever, she corrects him: ]

Since you have me as a partner.

So what'll I be studying with her?

crystal

[rowancrowned]

Lady's things, [ he says, because that's what he imagines madame de cedoux will instill in her if there is any grace in kitty for it. ]

You cannot conduct yourself like me and expect to get very far. I am insufferable.

crystal

[rathercommon]

[ Kitty snorts, thoroughly charmed by that self-deprecation. She likes him. ]

So'm I. A different sort of insufferable, I imagine, but still insufferable. And anyway, you've gotten plenty far, haven't you?

crystal

[rowancrowned]

I have momentum. [ modest. ] And plenty of mistakes before I began to understand that I would have you avoid.

crystal

[rathercommon]

Like what?

crystal

[rowancrowned]

Ask Madame de Cedoux, I am sure she will have an accounting.