“Is that all? I mean, did I do anything?”
     “Do?” he chanel bags outlet said absently.
     “Did I do something to upset you, or make you mad at me?”
     “Not at all.” He turned, smiled kindly as the narrow flame hissed.
     “It’s just, Mr. Gaines, I know you’re going to hurt me. I can’t stop you. But can you tell me why? I just want to understand why chanel bags sale you’re going to hurt me.”
     “Isn’t this interesting?” He cocked his head and studied her. “She asks, always she asks why. But she screams it. She doesn’t ever ask so politely.”
     “She only wants to understand.”
     “Well. Well, well, well.” He turned the torch off, and Ariel’s chest heaved with relief. “This is different. chanel bags outlet I enjoy variety. She was lovely, you know.”
     “Was she?” Ariel moistened her lips as he pulled up a stool and sat so he could speak face-to-face. How could he look so ordinary? she wondered. How could he look so nice, and be so vicious?
     “You’re very pretty, but she was almost exquisite. chanel bags And when she sang, she was glorious.”
     “What…what did she sing?”
     “Soprano. She had a multiple voice.”
     “I…I don’t know what that means.”
     “Her brilliance was so bright. She was allegra—those high, clear notes seeming to simply lift out of her. And the color, the texture of lirica with the intensity and depth of the cheap chanel bags drammatica. Her range…”
     Moisture sheened his eyes as he pressed his fingers to his lips, kissed the tips. “I could, and did, listen to her for hours. She would accompany herself on the piano when at home. She tried to teach me, but…” He smiled wistfully as he held up his hands. chanel bags outlet “I had no talent for music, only a vast appreciation for it.”
     If he was talking he wasn’t hurting her, Ariel thought. She had to keep him talking. “Is it opera? I don’t know anything about opera.”
     “You think it’s stuffy, boring, old-fashioned.”