Belle blinked back tears as she carried on through to Calais. She just couldn’t believe it. Just when she had thought that everything was perfect, just when she had felt happy for the first time in a long time...it had all been screwed up beyond her control. She had been too panicked to register Clopin’s declaration of love for her properly and now as she began to realise just what that meant, just what it was to have the person she loved love her in return, she also felt a sinking feeling that she was never going to know that love ever again.
Even Iago was quiet, unusually so for him....
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