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Such a short tio--not yet four weeks--since I was still at Branches, and wondering whatclock of life

Oh, now I know It is being in love--frightfully in love, as we are I h, and rehters all of them, and they must never feel quite sure It will be dreadfully difficult to tease Robert, because he is so direct and si so very pretty as I a at h to keep him worried, and I won't have to be tiresome myself I hope so, because I really do love hio, and be as sweet as I want to

I aht perfectly silly to hear of before I kissed his letter, and slept with it on the pillow besidewoke at six, and turned on the electric light to read it again The part where the "darlings" coht--that is where I kissedelse Whether Lady Ver is angry or not does not bother o on pretending when Robert had said straight out he loved h, and probably rather spiteful about it

I rite her the sio She will guess by Robert not going to Sedgwick

CLARIDGE'S Monday afternoon

At half-past eleven thisLady Merrenden came, and the room was all full of flowers that Robert had sent, bunches and bunches of violets and gardenias She kissed ht for a moment, and we did not speak Then she said, in a voice that trembled a little: "Robert is so very dear to me--almost eline--I may call you that, may not I?"

I squeezed her hand

"You are the echo of -time of love So, dear, I need not tell you that youwhat I can for you both"

Then we talked and talked

"I must admit," she said at last, "that I was prejudiced in your favor for your dear father's sake, but in any case h, I would have been prepared to find you char, even without that He has the rarest qualities, he is the truest, most untarnished soul in this world