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Chapter 46: A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Lilliana had given it her best shot. Edmund is certain calling Aures at work, immediately getting Mathilde and then having to beg for an audience could not have been anything other than utterly humiliating. But both he and Lilli had agreed that Edmund attempting the same thing would have led to nothing but catastrophe.

It’s cold outside as the sun dips below the city’s rooftops, and Edmund’s coat isn’t nearly warm enough. He never bothers with dressing for cold, as he’s always so quickly out of the hospital and into a taxi home that it hardly matters.

But today he’s waiting outside the Sorbonne, eyes fixed on the doors where Mathilde surely cannot avoid exiting forever.