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She had backed away a little distance frohtly inward, and thinking that she had made no

mistake in her ether too regular, his head and body too perfectly raceful sys purely and ainst the doorway, she suddenly recollected with a blush

that she was staring like a schoolgirl, and sat down And he drew

up a chair before her and seated himself; and then under the

billowy rose crinoline she set her pretty feet close together,

folded her hands, and looked at hier really felt

"The weather," she repeated, "is unusually warm Do you think that

Major Anderson will hold out at Su to relieve hihed, "where will it all

end, Mr Berkley?"

"In war," he said, also s; but neither of them believed it,

or, at the --since their first encounter

"I have thought about you a good deal since Camilla's theatre

party," he said pleasantly

"Have you?" She scarcely knehat else to say--and regretted

saying anything

"Indeed I have I dare not believe you have wasted as ht on the man you danced with once--and refused ever after"

She felt, suddenly, a sense of uneasiness in being near him