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Playing! Of course he would not work all the ti back

to his old friends, to people who had always known hiirls-He did his best then He told her of the old family house, built by one of

his forebears who had been a king's ton had put the case

for the colonies, and who had given himself and his oldest son then to the

cause that he made his own He told of old servants who had hen he

decided to close the house and go away When she fell silent, he thought

he was interesting her He told her the family traditions that had been

the fairy tales of his childhood He described the library, the choice

rooilt frames, and of his

father's collection of books Because it was hoh it had rather hurt his that he wanted to forget

But a terrible thing was happening to Sidney Side by side with the

wonders he described so casually, she was placing the little house What

an exile it must have been for him! How hopelessly middle-class they must

have seemed! How idiotic of her to think, for onein this new-old life of his!

What traditions had she? None, of course, save to be honest and good and