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Gretchen blushed

"I should like to co along a little present?"

"If it so please you Iwith you?" asked Hans

"If you wish," diffidently

So Gru, and he asked her many questions, and some of her answers surprised him

"Never knew father orwho fell into kind hands This is where I live"

"And if I should ask to come in?"

"But I shall be too busy to talk This is bread-day," evasively

"I prohter rippled; she was always close to that expression "You are a funny man Come in, then; but mind, you will be dusty with flour when you leave"

"I will undertake that risk," he replied, with a seriousness not in tune with the comedy of the situation

Into the kitchen she led him She was moved with curiosity Why should any man wish to see a woman knead bread?