**Miss** Cressida Rosier was loitering in the dark corridor, and so shone upon she raised her hand to shield her eyes. "Merlion! I didn't see you coming." She was rather unprepared for coming across anyone at this time and place. "Oh, I suppose I got lost. I might have lost something, too." She admitted and looked about for the book she hid somewhere in the dark underbelly of the castle a few days earlier, when one of her cousins was in pursuit of her. She wouldn't have Arabella know what she was reading for anything, because she feared she would mention it in her next letter home. Arabella mustn't have very many more interesting things to report. Silas Merlion would hardly find her choice of novel relevant, so she dared to tell him: "I am searching for a book. It is wrapped in fine purple paper. But say, what are you doing here?"
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