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hidden And as for Alice, if she didn't think anything else, she'd

think I had fibbed to her And that would nearly kill her; she has a

perfect :

Alice's discovery that I have been--like ot to

be, it shall be open and aboveboard"

She gasped with relief; his look of cold annoyanceat all

I shall tell her that I have o--"

"Was in love? Oh, Lloyd!" she broke in with a cry of pain; at which

intrusion of sentiot to do with it? I' to pay the piper! I'll tell Alice

that or any other da to be

h the forirl likes to have a

stepo as

well as possible That's all I have to say"

He set his teeth and turning his back on her, threw his half-s on the sofa, ratitude, Mr Pryor did not take the trouble to listen