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Clarence gave her a feral look as he stared.

She bit her lip and squinted, saying, "No!"

"Do you want to walk around dressed like that?"

Her neck was long and fair; she straightened her waist and lifted her chin slightly. "This is how everyone dresses. Why isn't one able to? Since you consider me to be a wantonly woman and you dislike whatever I wear. So why should it matter to me what you think?"

Clarence scowled. After saying these things, she turned around and walked away, carefully lowering the shawl to reveal her lovely shoulders.

Joseph says, "....." She had a tiger on her back!

Clarence’s hands were clinched into fists, and his breath turned chilly. He cast a sardonic glance at that mysterious figure.

"Mr. Conrad..... Shall we... bring Mrs. Conrad back?" stammered Joseph , standing behind him.

"Who gave you permission to call her that?"

"Did I make a mistake?" Joseph asked, swallowing a mouthful of spittle anxiously. When he addressed her as Mrs. Conrad in fron