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"Oh...I didn't realize there was a...a conversation," Gilbert said as he went in to the little house.

"There was," she said, stepping through the door. "A brief one."

Gilbert sat down on the boards, settling in for the discussion that would ensue.

When Anne didn't elaborate, he prompted, "Before...?"

Anne, now seated in the corner, her voice rather clipped, said only:

"Before."

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