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"Youtheone to the storeroom for some apples, after her

reconciliation with Mrs Bartlett, returned to find Sanderson talking

earnestly to Kate by theKate held up the roses for Anna to

s like roses for

taking the edge off a snowstor them, while

Sanderson looked on with nicely concealed amusement

"Well, what do you think of them, Anna?" said Kate, disappointed that

she enerally, Miss Kate, is that

they fade quickly and do not e the little

affairs in which they have played a part" She returned Sanderson's

languid glance in a way thatin the humor for a little

cynicism "What a pity that love letters can't be constructed on the

same principle"

Sanderson did not feel particularly at ease while these two young woly much relieved when

Mrs Bartlett and Anna both left the roo a new supply of preserved peaches

"Kate, did you irl?" Sanderson asked