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After all, he would not have had it otherwise The charm, he told

himself, was in the levity of the situation The thread by which she held

him was so fine that it could be broken any day There would be no pangs

of conscience, no tears, no reproaches; no tyrannies of the heart and

revolutions of the soul It was to Mrs Nevill Tyson's eternal credit

that she made no claims Clearly, when a tie can be broken to- it to-day

So in the afternoon Stanistreet called again at Ridgnored the possibility of passion, she

had the largest ideas of the scope and significance of friendship She

made no claims, but she exacted from Louis a multitude of small services

for which he was held to be sufficiently repaid in srown dependent on hirity of ment, and she

consulted hioith

equally guileless reliance

To-day he found her in a state of agitated perplexity She put a letter

into his hands He was to read it; he e, it was