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worse – treating someone unfairly or being unkind. We end up calling ourselves a coward and, in effect, dare ourselves to take a chance. And then we walk right into something bad.
So, Clara came up with Plan F – the “No harm can come from dancing with a Prince and it will make Mother happy and get her off my back” plan.
When Clara’s skin began to crawl as the Prince took her hand, and she heard her mother gloating about wedding bells, she began to doubt that any plan of hers would ever work. And when she felt the Prince sweep her hair off her shoulder and heard him whisper in her ear, she began to panic because, even though she was being wooed, the wooer was drooling on her neck. And she was afraid he was marking the spot where he would sink the blades of his yellow teeth.
And Clara knew she had walked straight into a trap – knowing it was a trap – and she was the bait.
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