SHIP: R&H's spat after the ball

[david_p2002ca]

No: HPFGUIDX 34662

I am reading a book called "The Hidden War" by the late Russian 
journalist Artyom Borovik.  There's a passage that to me is 
remarkably similar to the R&H interaction after the Yule ball in GoF.


...[T]hey happened to find themselves standing awkwardly close to 
each other.  Sudenly she broke the silence by turning to him and 
saying, in utter seriousness, "What a fool you are!"

"And why is that?" Kirillov asked, dumbfounded.

"Because no matter how many times you invite me to dance, I won't 
dance with you," she said, turning away from him.

"Where did you get the idea I would even ask you?" Kirillov 
asked... "I wasn't even thinking of asking you to dance," he blurted 
clumsily.  "Understand?"

"And that's exactly why," she said, turning back to him, "you are a 
fool."

Her name was Elyka.  And before Kirillov's departure departure for 
Afghanistan, she became Elyka Kirillov.

(New York: Grove Press  ISBN 0-8021-3775-X)

Definite shades of R&H's spat post Yule in GoF.

David P.