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Hannah returns with Fred (a.k.a. bullseye) and sternly says, I'll be upstairs if you want me, Alexis. I was coming back to Collin(g)wood, he reminds her. This is better here, she says. He notes, you're cold, and embraces her, kidding her forehead. I feel so much warmer in your arms--look at me, she demands, staring into his eyes. You're so beautiful, he croons, ever since I first saw you... "You've known you would hold me like this," she finishes. I sure hoped so, he says, but is suddenly distracted and looks away from her. No, don't turn your face away, look at me, she orders. What's wrong with me? he wonders, I feel so cold! She draws him back into her embrace, insisting, look at me. He does. This is the way it will be now, she says--you will feel cold, but you must not struggle to look away--you can't now, Fred, you can't. "Kiss me! Kiss me!" She draws his lips to hers, deepening the kiss. He holds her closely, feeling his own life slipping away. His eyes fly open wide; he tries to pull away, but she holds him, draining his life. When she finally lets him go, he falls to the floor, dead. Hannah! calls Angelique--I'm all right now. Hannah examines poor Fred--how cold she is, he mutters.Yes, says Angelique, and I am warm again! She touches her cheek. He's dead, says Hannah--it's as if he's been dead for hours! "That's the way it must be now," says Angelique, not at all sorry about it, "this is the way I will live now--and when Quentin comes to join me, he will live this way, too--for eternity!"[/spoiler]