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"You're alone--at the Parker House?"

She looked at hierous?"

"No; not dangerous--"

"But unconventional? I see; I suppose it is" She considered a ht of it, because I've just done soe of irony lingered in her eyes "I've just refused to take back a su up and moved a step or tay She had furled her parasol and sat absently drawing patterns on the gravel Presently he came back and stood before her

"Some one--has come here to meet you?"

"Yes"

"With this offer?"

She nodded

"And you refused--because of the conditions?"

"I refused," she said after a ain "What were the conditions?"

"Oh, they were not onerous: just to sit at the head of his table now and then"

There was another interval of silence Archer's heart had slaroping for a word