I strove to speak with conviction, for I was trying to convince myself.

“I know he has. And yet⸺”

He hesitated.

“What, Lord Elyn.”

“Well, didn’t it strike you that he looked at the dog very queerly?”

“Queerly?”

“Yes, not as if he had a great fancy for it.”

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