He was the villain, protested Anne. He had to be punished. I like him best of them all, said unreasonable Diana. Well, he's dead, and he'll have to stay dead, said Anne, rather resentfully. If I had let him live he'd have gone on persecuting Averil and Perceval. Yes—unless you had reformed him. That wouldn't have been romantic, and, besides, it would have made the story too long. Ch. 12
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