[Stella, why do you have to be so generously forgiving so open about that? Fenimore doesn't say anything at first -- before that, she turns to look in just about every possible direction. It's only after she feels sure that there's no one else in earshot that she joins him on the railing, plunking down her own elbows with a sigh (though that's a bit higher for her -- probably more cross-armed).]
...Do you want to know more than that? [Now that they've reached this point, she'll probably tell him anyway unless he gives a firm no, and she can't imagine him doing that now that he brought it up.]
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so generously forgivingso open about that? Fenimore doesn't say anything at first -- before that, she turns to look in just about every possible direction. It's only after she feels sure that there's no one else in earshot that she joins him on the railing, plunking down her own elbows with a sigh (though that's a bit higher for her -- probably more cross-armed).]...Do you want to know more than that? [Now that they've reached this point, she'll probably tell him anyway unless he gives a firm no, and she can't imagine him doing that now that he brought it up.]