Tamara de Lempicka Portrait of Ira

Tamara de Lempicka Portrait of IraTamara de Lempicka La bella RafaelaTamara de Lempicka Girl in a Green Dress
and watch. Why didn't I realize that before?"
"All right, I do," she said. "Everyone knows they get up to something secret. They have a ritual or something. And I just too. Perhaps she should try to clear them up without his help.
Her main thought was anxiety, and it wasn't for herself. She'd been in trouble often enough to be used to it. This time she was anxious about Lord Asriel, and about what this all meant. It wasn't often that he visited the college, and the fact that this was a time of high political tension meant that he hadn't come simply to eat and drink and smoke wanted to know what it was.""It's none of they want to enjoy their little secrets you should just feel superior and let them get on with it. Hiding and spying is for silly children.""Exactly what I knew you'd say. Now stop nagging."The two of them sat in silence for a while, Lyra uncomfortable on the hard floor of the wardrobe and Pantalaimon self-righteously twitching his temporary antennae on one of the robes. Lyra felt a mixture of thoughts contending in her head, and she would have liked nothing better than to share them with her daemon, but she was proud