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Everyone seeranted that she missed him Even her

husband, when he ca Robert's departure,

expressed regret that he had gone

"How do you get on without him, Edna?" he asked

"It's very dull without him," she admitted Mr Pontellier had seen

Robert in the city, and Edna asked him a dozen questions or more Where

had they one

"in" and had a drink and a cigar together What had they talked about?

Chiefly about his prospects in Mexico, which Mr Pontellier thought

were proay, or how?

Quite cheerful, and wholly taken up with the idea of his trip, which

Mr Pontellier found altogether natural in a young fellow about to seek

fortune and adventure in a strange, queer country

Edna tapped her foot impatiently, and wondered why the children