Page 36 of The Duke's Bride in Disguise
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"You saw the way Mrs Raab treated those girls," Lady Emily replied with a frown of her own, "She would have turned the poor girl away."
Raff remained silent, as he tried to digest Lady Emily's reasoning. True, Mrs Raab seemed disinclined toward showing any compassion to her charges, but the manner in which Emily had gone about obtaining the information rankled him.
"I abhor dishonesty," Raff said, after a moment's taut silence, "I can forgive anything, my Lady, but I cannot forgive someone who lies to me. Do you understand?"
"I do," Lady Emily responded in a voice that, to Raff's ear, sounded extraordinarily sad.
