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A little in front of them a woman of thirty or more, exquisitely dressed

in summer white, pretty and co to catch Percival's eye he looked inquiry

"Mrs Appleton," whispered that young man, and lifted his eyebrows as

if to express astonished admiration, then lanced back at the self-satisfied prosperity

beneath her filmy hat Then, suddenly, at the far end of the rooirl's head, outlined against a

high bench-back, her dreamy eyes fixed on the speaker It was a

cameo-like face, not animated, but delicate and finely lined Norris

knew her in a flash This was the girl whose photograph had stood on

Dick's e and of whom Dick had sometimes spoken in those

rare intimate hours when he talked of his ot the rest of the rooe of Mrs Appleton's hat shut her off, and brought him back

to consciousness of the place and the supposed interests of the day He

turned back with a sigh to Ra himself with so far afield, and that the

attitude of polite interest came as much fro," as fro to them for an hour His speech had

that precision and purity both of word and of enunciation by which a