GR translation: though she never learned to arm herself against unexpected sight of him across a room

[David Morris]

Both of them are deeply embedded and experienced in a world of cold-hearted
deceit, with poker-faced theatrical performances smoothly maneuvering in
the highest realms of power and sophistication.  But even so armed, the
mere not unexpected sight of Pirate in his costume makes her heart
flutter.  Make your own conclusions, and let the reader do the same.

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 3:50 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V35.41-36.7, P36.22-29   Incredible black-and-white Scorpia confirmed not a
> few Piratical fantasies about the glamorous silken-calved English realworld
> he’d felt so shut away from. They got together while Clive was away on a
> trouble-shooting mission for ICI in, of all places, Bahrein. The symmetry
> of this helped Pirate relax about it some. They would attend parties as
> strangers, though she never learned to arm herself against unexpected sight
> of him across a room (trying to belong, as if he were not someone’s
> employee).
>
> What does this sentence imply about her reaction when she unexpectedly
> catches sight of him across a room?
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