There is a thing that happens to fear when it has gone on for eleven years. It gets tired. It cannot keep standing up.
Isabelle had been frightened of this since she was seven. She had been frightened of it in a hundred and forty rooms in this castle, on journeys, in the abbey at Loft, in the good years and the war years, and she was so extraordinarily tired of it.
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