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Henri sat on his sofa and watched Sara Lee Also he shamelessly listened

to the conversation, not because he meant to be an eavesdropper but

because he liked Sara Lee's voice He had expected a highly inflected

British voice, and instead here was so entirely different--that

is, Sara Lee's endeavor to reconcile the English "a" with her normal

western Pennsylvania pronunciation She did it quite unintentionally,

but she had a good ear and it was difficult, for instance, to say

"rather" when Mr Travers said "rawther"

Henri had a good ear too And thefor did not colish rather better

than aps being

what he lost: MR TRAVERS: ---- to France, anyhow After that ---SARA LEE: Awfully sorry to be ---- But what shall I do if I do get over?

The chambermaid up-stairs ---- very difficult

MR TRAVERS: The proper and sensible thing is ---- ho yet

Henri knew that she was an Ae of tears He glared at poor Mr Travers, as doing his

best, and lighted a French cigarette

"There must be some way," said Sara Lee "If they need help--and I

have read you Mabel Andrews' letter--then I should think they'd be