Prosper usually was not caught unless he was trying to be caught; the last time this had happened, his wife had found his letters, and that fallout had been so firmly in the department of passive aggression that Prosper did not know what to do with this. He ran a hand over his hair. "Right," he said, "Well, ah — no harm." Other than that Prosper wanted to sink into the floor to avoid this, of course.

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