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"What?"

"Kitty-cats come back, dear"

"Oh, I suppose so … Do you believe I could induce him to wear his hair any way except pompadour? … and, dear, his beard is so dreadfully silky Isn't there anything he could take for it?"

"Only a razor I', thick, soft, eyelashes of his are oht just as reasonably wear hed Sylvia "Oh, this is atrocious of us--it is sis I ah, mean, covetous, contemptible--"

"Dear!" said Grace Ferralla career To criticise his investht be bad taste; to be able to extract what amusement you can out of Howard is a direct o mad, you know"

"Grace! Do you wish me to marry him?"

"What is the alternative, dear?"

"Why, nothing--self-respect, dowdiness, and peace"

"Is that all?"

"All I can see"

"Not Stephen Siward?"

"To ood time with him; you don't know! He is such a boy--soood for hi … Besides, his curiosity is quenched; I am the sort he supposed Now he's found out he will be nice … It's been days since I've had a talk with him He tried to, but I wouldn't Besides, the s about hi definite, only hints, se ofdefinite to refute I could not even appear to understand or notice--it was all done in such a horridly vague way But it only made me like him; and no doubt that actress he took to the Patroons is better co his own sort"

"Oh," said Grace Ferrall slowly, "if that is the way you feel, I don't see why you shouldn't play with Mr Sihenever you like"

"Nor I I've been a perfect fool not to … Howard hates him"

"How do you know?"

"What a question! A wos Then, you remember that caricature--so dreadfully like Howard? Howard has no sense of hu that Mr Siward could have done to hiroaned Grace "Doesn't Howard know that I did that?"