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' Her expression washard; Octavia winced. 'Absolutely notguilty. But it was what she should do. Janet had slept badly.

I think itwould be better if you left too. She didn't want it at home, but she felt she had to keep it; itwas important, central to her strange new life. 'Tom,' she said, 'a couple of things. The very first.