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Before Peter, there was Philip. Harriet's life from the day she met Philip to the day Charles Parker paid a visit to ask her a few questions about his death.
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"This is Miss Vane, the reason we're all here."
"Philip Boyes," said the friend, extending his hand, then starting to turn away almost before she finished shaking it. Harriet laughed, just as she realized – this was the Philip Boyes, the one who had written Abhasa and Mrs Bolton-Brown. Those books had made the rounds of half the undergraduates at Shrewsbury and Miss Mollison had been rather tiresome in her insistence that she understood them.
"Is that how you treat a guest of honour?" she said.
He glanced back at her. "How precisely should I treat a guest of honour? Should I throw roses at her as if she just won a bullfight?"
"If you want to," she said, "But all I require is that you look at me for a moment."
Philip Boyes, how do I hate thee, let me count the ways. STRAIGHT MEN ARE THE WOOOOORST.