Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page319 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cYou can tell me as much or as little as you like. I won\u2019t be shocked. I\u2019ll treat it all in total confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd if you want to tell me anything delicate it will never leave this room without your consent.\u201d<\/p>\n HayWire is not accustomed to this. Somebody is devoting one hundred percent of their attention to him. As if he\u2019s the most important thing in the world. He looks at her face. She must be in her late twenties or early thirties, she has lovely, long, flowing, light ash brown hair, no cosmetics nor jewellery, and she is naturally good looking. As always, she has a dignified, graceful expression on her face.<\/p>\n HayWire says nothing. He\u2019s no longer crying, but he takes a deep breath, and sighs.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have all the time in the world,\u201d she says softly. Pausing regularly, leaving plenty of gaps for HayWire to speak if he wants to.<\/p>\n \u201cAs long as you like. Or as short as you like. This whole place can run without me.\u201d<\/p>\n AuntSylvie knows that a cautious rapport has already been established, that HayWire wants to say something, and that as long as she\u2019s sympathetic and patient, somehow she can surely help.<\/p>\n HayWire finishes his tea. AuntSylvie politely widens her eyes and she looks him in the eye. She smiles a little and then looks at the empty tea cup. She seems to detect a brief nod of the head from HayWire. Yes, obviously he wants another tea. She fills the cup, then pushes the small plate of chocolate chip cookies nearer to him.<\/p>\n There\u2019s another period of silence.<\/p>\n And finally HayWire speaks.<\/p>\n \u201cThey only hit until you cry.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUh huh?\u201d<\/p>\n There\u2019s more silence, AuntSylvie can see that HayWire wants to tell the story. He\u2019s probably just taking time to find the right words to tell it. After a measured pause, she volunteers a new question.<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page319 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page319 \u2013 Next \u201cYou can tell me as much or as little as you like. I won\u2019t be shocked. I\u2019ll treat it all in total confidence.\u201d \u201cAnd if you want to tell me anything delicate it will never leave this room without your consent.\u201d HayWire is not accustomed to this. Somebody is … Continue reading “Chapter 36 Sympathy and Patience319”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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