Perhaps if Art wasn't used to Ben's problems he would have been softer on the hypothetical girl, but instead he was thinking about Melody Crouch, and how Ben said on New Year's that he wasn't sure things were going to work out.

"And I'm certainly not suggesting you alter your opinion," Art said, because he could not imagine Fitz marrying again anytime soon, "Just that debutantes can be a rather caustic combination of - naïve and flirtatious and manipulative, when they want to be. But maybe she's just an eager girl."

Art had no confidence of this.

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