Chapter 26
As Hugh walked Joan home, he wondered about her family. And then decided to ask her. "I am quite curious regarding your family" Hugh said. "Do you suspect that we all manifest in enigma?" Joan asked, amused. Hugh laughed, "no. But we never talked over the topic." "No we didn't. But we just met yesterday" Joan answered, with a shrug. "Ah. Yes." "I love my family. My elder brother George, my younger sister Juliana, mother, father. All of them" Joan admitted. "Oh. Ah, Sir George. I know him. We are acquainted. He was my senior at the Eton college" Hugh said. Joan smiled "do you like him?" "I presume, we aren't acquainted well enough, for me to decide that" Hugh replied. "I like people who are honest" Joan said and looked up at him. Hugh looked at her, and something in her face spar
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