won’t ever tell S about him. She doesn’t need to know anything. She has asked me about her father once or twice, but she’s so little and it’s easy just to distract her. Obviously, I shan’t get away with that forever, though. One day she will want something more. This had been the first comment she had come across about Scarlet’s father, and Pip had scoured the entry for any clues as to his identity, but there weren’t any. She assumed it was just the usual old story – boy meets girl, girl gets into trouble, boy runs for the hills, and Evelyn clearly didn’t want him to have any part in Scarlet’s
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