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"I suppose there will," she said regretfully There were, indeed,

htened of Harry Wethere that he was only

stern because he cared so an to intrude upon her happiness a

stinging dissatisfaction with her past life At ti her career with that of the man who

loved her At times she came near to an extreme irritation with

Helene Vauquier Her lover was in her thoughts As she put it

herself: "I wanted always to look ood"

Good in the essentials of life, that is to be understood She had

lived in a lax world She was not particularly troubled by the

character of her associates; she was untouched by the at the baccarat-tables These were details, and did not

distress her Love had not turned her into a Puritan But certain

recollections plagued her soul The visit to the restaurant at

Montmartre, for instance, and the seances Of these, indeed, she

thought to have made an end There were the baccarat-roohbourhood to distract Mhts away from seances There was no seance as

yet held in the Villa Rose And there would have been none but for

Helene Vauquier