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"Please come here," I asked in an indifferent cold voice "You know it

is so difficult for ain The light of the apricot

lamp fell softly on her hair

"Now tell rew stubborn and she did not speak

"It is so unlike you to do these very fe on I never saw anyone so changed; once I looked upon you

as the model for all that was balanced, and unlike your sex It was I

who used to feel nervous and ineffectual, now, ever since we have been

engaged, you seem to be disturbed, and to have lost your serenity Don't

you think as it is the first evening that we are alone together that it

would be a wise thing to try and get at each other's point of view? Tell

me the truth Alathea, what has caused the alteration in you?"

Now she looked straight at me, and there was defiance in her expressive

eyes

"That is just what I ondering about It is true, I seem to have