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  "text": "“Still feeling guilty, are we? I’d have thought you’d be over that by now.”\n\n“I have a nettlesome little thing called a conscience,” Emily hissed. “Ever hear of it?”\n\n“They’re out of fashion in New York,” Stanton said, and though she guessed she was joking, he didn’t sound humorous.",
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      "text": "Emily looked at him for a long time. There were so many things she wanted to know—but she wanted not to know them even more. She didn’t want any more answers. He had been the one thing she could trust, the one person she could rely on. She wanted to beg him to be that way again. But it wasn’t him who had changed. It was her. It was her own credulity she really wanted back. And credulity, like virtue, could be lost only once.",
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