Anne didn't look surprised. They stepped into the hall. Be reasonable. Even if he gate- crashed, he was too lovely to turn away.
He said it with acid self-mockery. If he doesn't say goodbye now, it mil be later. I don't see the connection. And it was too true to be a joke; the sense of futility, of waiting blindly for disaster, was the same.
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