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"Come out--spy!" she called And Barnabas stepped out from the leaves

Then, because she knehat look was in his eyes, she kept her own

averted; and because she was a woue

"So !" said she

"But--he has your rose!" said Barnabas

"And what of that?"

"And he has your promise!"

"I never spoke--"

"But the rose did!"

"The rose will fade and wither--"

"But it bears your proave no promise, and--and--oh, why did you--look at me!"

"Look at you?"

"Why did you frown at ive him the rose?"

"Because it was so my pleasure Why did you frown at me with eyes

like--like a devil's?"

"I wanted to kill hiain, and my thanks are due to hiht me omen are"

"What do you mean?"

"I--loved you, Cleone To me you were one apart--holy, immaculate--"

"Yes?" said Cleone very softly

"And I find you--"

"Only a--woman, sir,--ill not be watched, and frowned at, and

spied upon"

"--a heartless coquette--" said Barnabas

"--who despises eavesdroppers, and will not be spied upon, or

frowned at!"