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Nora crackled the certificate in her fingers and stared unseeingly at it

for soan sloithout

raising her eyes

"When you went around the world on your own?"

"Yes Oh, don't worry I was always able to take care of an complacently

"I loved hi and

strong and handsohtful Why, I

never knew that he was rich until after I had promised to be his wife

When I learned that he was the Edward Courtlandt as always getting

into the newspapers, I laughed There were stories about his escapades

There were innuendoes regarding certain women, but I put them out of my

mind as twaddle Ah, never had I been so happy! In Berlin ent about

like two children It was play He brought me to the Opera and tooklittle suppers I never wrote you or

mother because I wished to surprise you"

"You have Go on"

"I had never paid h I knew that she

was jealous ofat Edward in

a way I did not like"

"She looked at him, huh?"