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Chapter Six
Neither Simon nor Rhiannon spent a very pleasant night. Five minutes after he left her, Simon hurried back, but she was gone. He regretted what he had said and done, not because he was willing to take Rhiannon on her terms but because of the way he had rejected them. Too late he had remembered Llewelyn telling him that Rhiannon's mother and grandmother had also been unwilling to marry. He had reacted as if Rhiannon's offer was one of contempt for him, as if she thought he was not worth marrying, and that was probably not true.
Simon stood in the garden awhile, hoping Rhiannon would guess he would return, but she did not come back and he could have torn out his hair with frustration. It would not be easy, he realized, to find a time alone with her again to explain himself. He stood irresolute thinking that it might not be easy even to be alone with himself in Llewelyn's court after the news he had dropped, and he had to be alone to think.

 
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