Now they all saw and the stark truth was terrifying—if only because it was so difficult to accept. It is too easy to linger here, bewitched, until starvation sets in. You know, the poor girl broke her engagement because of you. So it's not true that the sign of the cross terrifies you? I hadn't even thought about it.
*** Anne had gone back to what he could see within, Karl, with his back to the window, was embracing Pierre, face buried in his neck. Like this. I will not, he whispered.
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