“Sebastian Hepp was the one who gave the journalists the maids’ uniforms,” he said. Before she could consider how she felt about this information or why he might be telling her, he added, “I could arrest him. For assisting Nazis.” Warmth became fiery heat. “What the devil!” “I haven’t yet.” “Yet! Sebastian? Do you know what that would do to the Grotto? Do you know what that would do to him? For the crime of what? For the crime of kindness. For the crime of gentleness in this world, when he could’ve been any kind of man and he chose to be one with pity. For the—” “June,” he interrupted, and
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