‘She’s brought this on herself,’ she complained to Robin. ‘She could make this so much easier if she’d just do the research – I mean, no one’s done a third-year project in Haitian Creole, there’s barely even a Grammatica. She could be the very first!’ There was no debating with Letty when she was in these moods – it was obvious she only wanted an audience to vent to – but Robin tried anyway. ‘Suppose it means more to her than you realize.’ ‘But it doesn’t. I know it doesn’t! She’s not the slightest bit religious; I mean, she’s civilized—’ He whistled. ‘That’s a loaded word, Letty.’ ‘You know
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