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Kate turned again, and looked narrowly at the speaker Then she

laughed heartily "Well done, Jennie!" she cried "Why, you are

such a fashionable lady, such a Dolly Varden, I never saho you

were How do you do? Won't you sit down and have a chat? It's

just dawning on me that very possibly, from your dress and manner,

I SHOULD have called you Mrs Jardine"

"Didn't he tell you?" cried Jennie

"He did not," said Kate "Your name was not mentioned He said

no word about being married"

"We have been ht hi; I

have studied him, and waited on him, and borne his children, and

THIS isto do?"

"Go back to the hotel, when I finish with this view," said Kate

"I find it alht"

"Brazen!" cried Mrs Jardine

"Choose your words carefully," said Kate "I was here first; since