note;

[unreadability]

You're aware, I'm sure, that this is an entirely pointless choice of action. When one considers your reasoning.

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[unreadability]

If nothing else, it isn't thoughtless.

[nomorefeathers]

I would imagine not. Thoughtlessness hardly seems a trait either you or she possess.

[unreadability]

Fortunately, I'm much more talented out in the art of receiving compliments than she is.

[nomorefeathers]

A vital skill indeed.

You are well I hope?

[unreadability]

Jean Louis should have preferred staying in New York.

[nomorefeathers]

Really? I would have thought him happy to return to his responsibilities.

[unreadability]

In this case, his responsibilities landed him in a crossfire.

[nomorefeathers]

Literal or political?

And you have not answered my question. I asked after you, not your husband.

[unreadability]

The assassination attempt has had its impact on my own situation.

[nomorefeathers]

Oh.

Oh.

My condolences then. I assume he... is all right now?

[unreadability]

Yes.

[nomorefeathers]

That's good then.

Still. I do not think he would have preferred being here.

[unreadability]

The relationship Luxembourg and he engage in is mutual, of course.

[nomorefeathers]

Isn't that usually how politics works?

I think he missed you though. When you left.

[unreadability]

Imagine if he hadn't.

[nomorefeathers]

Attachment and affection are not always givens in any relationship.

[unreadability]

Meaning that you must take responsibility for your relations.

[nomorefeathers]

That doesn't mean you have to miss people.

I was trying to pay a compliment, you realize.

[unreadability]

To Jean Louis for displaying emotion or to me. For being the object of it.

[nomorefeathers]

It can not be both?

[unreadability]

[Slowly, a smile.]

The widest definition, then.

[nomorefeathers]

[And she'll return the smile]

I have missed you, you know. I always found our conversations fascinating at the very least.

[unreadability]

A result of the individuals involved in it.

[nomorefeathers]

Now who's paying the broad compliments?