If you feel so still, then we are each of us more sure of the other's place and keeping our fingers busy with sailor's work.
[ She makes it sound lighter than she feels it, but after a few words Alexandrie finds she cannot look at him. Her eyes flick away instead to the dish of nuts— a small cover, although not one she expects to work on Bastien— so she can pick out an almond. She'll show it to him with a little smile before she eats it: vengeance escaped. ]
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[ She makes it sound lighter than she feels it, but after a few words Alexandrie finds she cannot look at him. Her eyes flick away instead to the dish of nuts— a small cover, although not one she expects to work on Bastien— so she can pick out an almond. She'll show it to him with a little smile before she eats it: vengeance escaped. ]