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'Get out!' she screa, exhausted by his race to get there He looked at Gideon with a hatred little short of hers

'I told you to stay away from her!'

Gideon didn't speak He went out, and Grandie came to the bed to look down at her shadowed features on the pillow

'What did he do?' He sounded so angry that Marina almost smiled

'Nothing I woke up and he was sitting there'

'Das in a low hoarse h he could kill Gideon

Gideon had been one of his pupils; Grandie had been very proud of that He had wanted Gideon to learn to probe beneath the dazzling gloss of his sur- face technique and when he did Grandie had been delighted Gideon had developed beyond the loith pride as he listened to him Now he hated hione

She watched him and wondered for the first time how much Grandie knew His hatred for Gideon had to have soly and asked point-blank, 'How much has he told you?'

Grandie sat down slowly and took both her hands 'Everything,' he said 'He didn't hide anything' He sounded as though he could even hate Gideon for being honest 'I wanted to kill him at the time I told him to stay away from you from then on, but of course he didn't When did Gideon ever do what he was asked? He's self-willed, oblivious to the needs and wishes of everyone else in the world'

Marina nodded Closing her eyes, she gave a weary little yawn 'I'll go back to sleep'

'Let h he pleaded, and she smiled at him tenderly

'For a little while, then, until I'm asleep'

He patted her hands before he went and sat where Gideon had sat, watching her, and she fell asleep again before long, sinking into a blank world

She woke up to hear the angry voices down below and to know that Gideon had not gone Grandie was shouting, but then he lowered his voice to a furious whisper She could guess what he was saying Gideon was refusing to go and Grandie was trying to throw him out

Marina sat up and looked at the two neat dolls Eh she had danced all night For the past year they had been there, watching her, but now she had grown out of theret