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"Not at all Be perfectly frank and straightforward Say you are

sorry to go against her wishes--"

"Wishes,"industrially on the back of

the e licence

"--But you know that all she wants is your happiness--"

Reggie looked doubtful

"I' You don't know the

mater!"

"Never ie," put in Alice "Say it, anyhow Mr Bevan is

perfectly right"

"Right ho, darling! All right, laddie--'happiness' And then?"

"Point out in a feell-chosen sentences how charie s that sounded so indescribably ripping That part'll be

easy enough Besides, the mater knows Alice"

"Lady Caroline has seen me at the castle," said his bride

doubtfully, "but I shouldn't say she knows me She has hardly

spoken a dozen words to ie, earnestly, "you're in luck, dear heart! The

reat speaker, especially inforward to the time when she starts onno disrespect to the dear soul, when