[Just like that, she drops her line of query. Pao-Lin is gullible, in that sense – and, normally, that would drive him over the moon – but the trust she puts in him similarly warms something in Hubert.
He shakes his head.]
As a matter of fact, I'd just finished my business for the day.
[It's still early, so he'll find something else to do. Because he's just built that way.]
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He shakes his head.]
As a matter of fact, I'd just finished my business for the day.
[It's still early, so he'll find something else to do. Because he's just built that way.]