Yes, but her instinct is to assume that if he's 'hers' she ought to share with her siblings (the arrangement is a compromise between gift and loan, it seems to me, without going back and looking at the text). Patrick says 'he's yours' but provides a formula ('say I'm funny about it' or something of the kind?) so that she can deal with assumptions within the family.
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Date: 2005-08-30 09:14 pm (UTC)