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"Dear me! Is it so bad as that?"

"Worse, Helena"

"Then I am to continue a prisoner in that hat box?"

"Until you love me, Helena, as I do you"

"As I told you, that would be a long time"

"Yes! For never in the world can you love otten that"

"If only you could forget everything and just be a nice young man,"

said she "It is such fun This dear old town, don't you knoith a nice young o about with Aunt Lucinda and me----"

"Hoould a man like Calvin Davidson do?" I deh"

"I suppose so He is rich, able to have his horses and cars--even his

private yacht He can order a dinner in any country in the world, or

tell you the standing of any club, in either league, at any ht Could I say more for his education? He has two

country places and a city house and a business which nets hi nice? I do not resemble

Mr Davidson in any particular, except that I a a suit of flannels which I have

borrowed from John, his Chinese cook You can readily see I am a poor

man How, then, can I be nice?"