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She held up a forlorn looking sock to his aaze "And I think I'm

a clever woman"

"You're a very brave woman, Audrey," he said "You'll let me come back,

won't you?"

"Heavens, yes Whenever you like And I' a recluse

I just wanted to think over sos"

On the way home he stopped at his florist's, and ordered aShe had sent her love to

Natalie, so that night he told Natalie he had seen her, and such details

of her life as he knew

"I''s been

deadly dull without her She always o--I don't know just

how," she added, as if she had been turning her over in her mind "What