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It was late when they got ho for them

Wilson had come across at seven, i, and pro an early return In the little hall he had drawn

her to him and kissed her, this time not on the lips, but on the forehead

and on each of her white eyelids

"Little wife-to-be!" he had said, and was rather ashaot into his car, he had waved his

hand to her

Christine went to her roo length on the step below Sidney

"Well, dear s have been happening, K"

He sat erect and looked at her Perhaps because she had a wo the most of a piece of news, perhaps--more likely,

indeed--because she divined that the announcereeable, she delayed it, played with it

"I have gone into the operating-rooly I look hideous in it"

"Doubtless"

He smiled up at her There was relief in his eyes, and still a question

"Is that all the news?"

"There is so else, K"

It was aahead, his face set

Apparently he did not wish to hear her say it; for when, after a moment, he

spoke, it was to forestall her, after all