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"Well, it's time Jim was fair to Leslie," Nina said, with fa, irl solove in the car And

he must be crazy about her, or he'd never do what he's done"

"Do you knoho it is?"

"No Somebody's he's ashamed of, probably, or he wouldn't be so

clandestine about it"

"Nina!"

"Well, it looks like it Jih his shady period, like the rest"

That night it was Mrs Wheeler's turn to lie awake Again and again she

went over Nina's words, and her troubledmoney fro out a great deal at night, and returning very

late; once or twice, in the , he had looked ill and his eyes had

been bloodshot, as though he had been drinking

Anxiety gripped her There were soirl, perhaps

She raised herself on her elbow and looked at her sleeping husband Men