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"He's going to hly valuable, you

know"

"But it looks as though he didn't trust you!"

"He's being very polite about it; but, of course, in his eyes I'o on

A certain immaturity, the blind confidence of youth in those it

loves, explains Elizabeth's docility at that time But underneath her

sub uneasiness, fiercely suppressed

Buried deep, the battle between absolute trust and fear was beginning, a

battle which was so rapidly toof nervous strain in her

when she came in, later that day, to borrow a hat

"Look here, Elizabeth," she began, "I want to talk to you Are you going

to live in this--this hole all your life?"

"Hole nothing," Elizabeth said, hotly "Really, Nina, I do think you

ht be more careful of what you say"

"Oh, it's a dear old hole," Nina said negligently "But hole it is,

nevertheless Why in the world e her servants--but no

matter about that now Elizabeth, there's a lot of talk about you and

Dick Livingstone, and it makes me furious When I think that you can

have Wallie Sayre by lifting your finger--"

"And that I don't intend to lift er," Elizabeth interrupted