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"Perhaps you can pipe a tune upon it," she said, dipping

the paddle tentatively

"You put irls at St Agatha's as areat exception,-and-I

really shouldn't be talking to you at all! It's against

the rules! And we don't encourage s"

"The chaplain doesn't smoke, I suppose"

"Not in chapel; I believe it isn't done! And we

rarely see him elsewhere"

She had idled with the paddle so far, but now lifted

her eyes and drew back the blade for a long stroke

"But in the wood-thisso startled her

The poised blade dropped into the water with a splash;

she brought the canoe a trifle nearer to the wharf with

an almost imperceptible stroke, and turned toward me

onder and dismay in her eyes