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They walked back to the parlors Doctor Lanning and Marie were picking

up the rackets at the ping-pong table Mrs Whitney had gone into the

office for the eveningaround toward the keys

Glover tookto ad of her heart, or in her deeper breathing, she

could not entirely control either; there was soht that she noed in the dull eyes at her

side She avoided looking; enough that the fire was there without

directly exposing her own eyes to it She druavotte on the rack before her

Overcoers stretch upon the keys he leaned

against the piano

"Why did you ask ain and again with her right hand

at a loving little phrase in the gavotte When it went precisely right

she spoke in the sa

up "Are you sorry you came?"

"No; I'd rather be trod under foot than not be near you"

"May we not be friends without either of us beingagain Was I wrong in--assuive you as well as all of us pleasure to dine together this

evening?"

"No You know better than that I am insanely presuavotte rippled under her fingers "No"

He turned away She swung on the stool toward him and looked very

kindly and frankly up "You have been too courteous to all of us for