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

[Mike Jing]

Got it. Thanks, David.

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 7:04 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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