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"Oh!" said she, turning away from me; and then, very slowly: "No,

I suppose not"

"Certainly not," I added; "how should it be?"

"How indeed!" said she, over her shoulder And then I saw that

she was angry, and wondered

"And yet," I went on, after a lapse of silence, "I think I could

have answered both questions the moment I saw you at your

casement"

"Oh!" said she--this tiain, for I saw that she was sain I

wondered

"Yes," I nodded

"Then," said she, seeing I was silent, "whom do you suppose me?"

"You are, to the best of my belief, the Lady Helen Dunstan" My

coarded me for a moment in wide-eyed

astonishment

"And how, air, pray, did you learn all this?" she de at me slyly from the corner of her

pretty ether," I

answered; "o than yesterday I broke bread

with a certain Mr Beverley--"

I heard her breath co up into my face while her hands beat upon my breast with