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Seated round the dining room table, with Winkle clamoring for honey and John upsetting the sugar bowl, their unease vanished. And in a moment or two Daphne's mask of cool elegance had slipped a little and she became shy and uncertain, almost a little awkward. Michael felt a pang of warm feeling for her. He knew what it was like to have lost belief in one's own excellence.