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How mysterious it all is!-I wish I had been able to conceal the fact that I had noticed that the

glasses were off--Another day I would certainly have taken advantage of

this moment and would have tried tothe any

advantage from this situation, so I let the chance pass--Perhaps she

was grateful to an to feel that I --and suggested to her that we should take it in detail

She acquiesced--

Then it suddenly struck , of e of

the subject of the furniture itself--How could little Miss Sharp, a

poverty stricken typist, be familiar with William and Mary furniture?

She has obviously not "seen better days," and only taken up a

stenographic business lately, because such proficiency as she shows, not

only in this work but in account keeping and all the duties of a

secretary,

Could she have studied in Museuathered that she has

been in Paris all that tiland in 1914, she

could only have been eighteen or nineteen then, and girls of that age do

not generally take an interest in furniture This thought kept bothering

s up

Her voice interrupted hts