title: A Night of Royal Consequences (One Night With Consequences)
author:  Susan Stephens 
description: Susan Stephensis passionate about writingbooks set in fabulous locations where an outstanding man comes to grips with a cool, feisty woman.Susans hobbies include travel, reading, theatre, long walks, playing the piano, and she loves hearing from readers at her website. www.susanstephens.com
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  # Broken Wings
  
  
  ### Henry James
  
  
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  Conscious as he was of what was between them, though perhaps
  
  
  less conscious than ever of why there should at that time of day be
  
  
  anything, he would yet scarce have supposed they could be so long in a
  
  
  house together without some word or some look. It had been since the
  
  
  Saturday afternoon, and that made twenty-four hours. The party —
  
  
  five-and-thirty people, and some of them great — was one in which
  
  
  words and looks might more or less have gone astray. The effect, none
  
  
  the less, he judged, would have been, for her quite as for himself,
  
  
  that no sound and no sign from the other had been picked up by either.
  
  
  They had happened, both at dinner and at luncheon, to be so placed as
  
  
  not to have to glare — or to grin — acros