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Bella

(comfortably) Which of you was playing the dead march? (to Zoe) You?

Zoe

(promptly) Me. Did you never hear me Ever see me running? ^|1|xMind yr cornflowers.^x|1| (she runs to the piano and thumps the keyboard up and down, laughing) Do you know that?

^|1Lynch

The cat's rambles through the slag.^1| The cat's rambles
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(suddenly runs back to the table, to ^|1take grab^1| chocolate, to Kitty). Easy all. ^|1Who's making love to my sweeties.^1| What yours is mine & what's mine is my own. (Kitty, disconcerted, takes the silver paper and coats her teeth with it, grinning)