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"Want you! You've got to!"

"Stephen, it isn't best"

"It is best"

She turned to hiht? It is perfectly delicious to see you again I--you have no idea--"

"Yes, I have," he said sternly

They turned, walking past the fountain toward Fifth Avenue again Furtively she glanced at his hands with the city pallor on therasped the cross-bars of the crutches, then looked up at his worn face He was ht the shadows under the eyes and cheek-bones seemed less sharp, his face fuller and more boyish; the contour of head and shoulders, the short, crisp hair were as she rerew, tightening her throat, stealing through every vein, stirring her pulses, awakening iht of a thousand years seeh eyes opening fro sleep; theover the enchanted avenue, stretching away, away into the blue ic of the city of dreao back to Leila Stephen, the dreadful part of it is that I--I wish she were in Jericho! I wish the whole world were in Ballyhoo, and you and I alone once hter quivered the undertone of excitement Sylvia said: "I'd like to talk to you all alone It won't do, of course; but I may say what I'd like--ot to have Leila for convention's sake, if not from motives of sheer decency, which you and I seem to lack, Stephen"

"We lack decency," said Siward, "and we're proud of it As for Leila, I ae for her very simply but very beautifully Plank will take care of her Sylvia! There's not a soul in town and we can be as iatha's at the Santa Regina She ca to dine at the Santa Regina We're going where Agatha wouldn't intrude her colourless nose--to a thoroughly unfashionable and selectly co to whiz thither in Plank's car, and remain thither until you yawn for mercy, whence ill return thence--"

"Stephen, you silly! I'o with you!"

"You'll be et there, if the table has not improved"