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He has an immense amount to talk
about, and very good manners."
"Also, when he does not tease too much?--And you like him?"
"I don't quite know," Damaris slowly said. "He did not stay with us
long enough for me to make up my mind. And then other things happened
which rather put him out of my head. He was a little conceited, perhaps,
I thought."
"Not unnaturally, being at the top of the pass list. But though other
things put him out of your head, he writes to you?"
In the pussy-warmth within her muff, Mrs. Frayling became sensible
that Damaris' hand grew unresponsive, at once curiously stiff and
curiously limp.
"He has written twice. Once on the voyage out, and again soon after he
arrived. The--the second letter reached me this week."
Notwithstanding sunshine, the eager air, and lively bumping of the
descent, Henrietta observed the flush fade, leaving the girl white as
milk. Her eyes looked positively enormous set in the pallor of her face.
They were veiled, telling nothing, and thereby--to Mrs.


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