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"It wasn't I'd have tried to stop it if I'd known"

"You couldn't have stopped it"

"I'ood It really isn't"

"Why isn't it? I know I'ly face--"

"I love your face"

She loved it, with its cohtly flattened features, laid back; its little surprised hted eyes and its sadness

"It's the dearest face But--"

"I suppose," he said, "it sounds a bit startling and sudden But if you'd been bottling it up as long as I have--Why, I loved you the first time I saw you On the boat So you see, it's you It isn't just anything you've done"

"If you knehat I have done, my dear If you only knew You wouldn't want to marry me"

She would have to tell him That would put him off That would stop him If she had loved him she would have had to tell hi to tell you"

She wondered whether he had really listened A queer smile played about hiselse all the time