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Life is like so either too

slow or too fast Froasso Sea and the rapids--forever either becalmed or

storm-tossed It seemed to Maud, as she looked across the

dinner-table in order to e Bevan who sat opposite her, that, afterwhatever had happened, she was now living through a

period when everything was happening at once Life, froun to race

To the orderly routine that stretched back to the tirace from Wales there had succeeded a ht had coun to dress for dinner till so-roo that the meal was ready She had received her first

shock when the love-sick Plu from a mixed crowd of

relatives and friends, had informed her that he was to take her in

She had not expected Pluhbourhood Pluoing abroad for a bit toto a sensitive girl to find her

victiain like this She did not know that, as far as

Plummer was concerned, the whole affair was to be considered opened

again To Plu him,

there had come the idea that there was Another, and that this other

Froie as his worst rival And now Reggie had bolted with the

Faraday girl, leaving Maud in excellent condition, so it seemed to

Plummer, to console herself with a worthier man Plummer knew all

about the Rebound and the part it plays in the affairs of the

heart His own breach-of-promise case two years earlier had been