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Alathea's face was a study! I watched her lazily How had I ever thought

her plain? Even in those first days, disguised with the horn spectacles,

and the tornback hair, the contour of her little face is so perfectly

oval, and her neck so round and long, but not too long There is not the

least look of scragginess about her, just extreme slenderness, a

small-boned creature of perhaps five foot four or five, with childish

outline To-day in the becolasses on she is lovely, perhaps she seems so to me because I no

that the glasses are not necessary The expression of hertricked? Does the ets me

alone? Shall I run away and have done with it?"

She was restless, her old serenity seean calmly, "What you would like to do

i I mean would you prefer that ent to

Versailles? The passport business o down to the Riviera? Or just stay at the flat?"

"I don't care in the least," she replied ungraciously

"Then if you don't care, ill stay at the flat, because if I do not