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She narrowed her eyelids

"Yes, soroes can afford Then, too, I insist that it's jolly to fool them"

"Don't you hate the deception?"

She chuckled and put her head to one side

"At first I did; but, do you kno I believe I prefer it"

He looked so horrified that she burst out laughing He laughed too She was a puzzle to hi what a mistress of a s?" he asked suddenly

"Because I want you to do well here in Washington"

"General philanthropy?"

"No, special" Her eyes were bright with

"Then you care--for h to marry me?"

She answered very calmly and certainly: "Yes"

He leaned toward her And then between hireat storm-swept eyes looked into his out of a world of infinite pain, and he dropped his head in hesitation and shahtfully bashful