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Barrington, Viscount Litterly and Lady Noeline Belturbet are cousins, but they have never met. A faction between their fathers led to an estrangement keeping the families apart. The Belturbets desired sons to inherit the family estate at Overcote Park; when they had only daughters, they chose to raise the girls as boys in the privacy of their estate. The Belturbet girls enjoy the freedom and independence that living as men afford them, and are far more comfortable in masculine settings than
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Start: Litterly: (Seeing Noeline and speaking to himself) My boy—my girl—my cousin! (He rustles the fallen leaves with his stick)
Noeline: (Without turning) Oh, do go! I promise to join you in five minutes.
Litterly: (Approaching her) Eh?
Noeline: (Rising, with a gasp, and facing him) Sir!
Litterly: You—you weren’t speaking to me?
Noeline:
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