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Show 24 "We want you to have it," Annis repeats, but Max is overcome: it is a tainted, premature, graverobbing thing, and he cannot bring himself to touch it. "If we willed it to you would you be glad?" Annis asks, and Max is brought to admit that he would be extremely proud. "Then be proud now," Annis says, "while we can still see it," and she motions to Robeck to take it off the wall. There is a legacy too for Polly; it is a bracelet of Annis1 she has always admired, a gold-link chain that clatters delicately as she moves. Polly slips it on, faltering a bit and clearly overcome with both admiration and an emotion too large: she encloses Annis in a desperate embrace, and weeps. "Don't," she says. "Don't do it." But Annis strokes her head, comforts her. "It is what we want." |