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"You bad-tempered?" he said "No, indeed! You're just the opposite

That's why I suggested you when I heard about this boy"

"What boy?"

"Why, a little fellow of seven--David his na to find a hoht perhaps you--"

"--would take hihed "I!"

"Why, it occurred to ht be lonely, and--"

Helena Richie stopped laughing; she pulled off her other glove and

looked down at her white hands "Well, yes, I'"

"You don't?" he said blankly, and in his surprise he sat down again

"Oh, I'm sure that's only because you don't know them If you had ever

known a child--"

"I have," Mrs Richie said, "one" Her voice was bleak; the gayety had

dropped out of it; for an instant she looked old Williaan to pull her gloves on again, s at hiirl?"

"Boy" She turned her face away, but he saw her chin tremble There

was a moment's silence; then the doctor said with curious harshness

"Well, anyhow, you knohat it means to have owned your own"