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26 lowed herself to be caught. M. Hervart considered himself too expert in feminine psychology to admit the possibility of a young girl's having deliberately taken the ﬁrst step. He felt like an absent-minded sportsman who, forgetting that he has ﬁred, wakes up to ﬁnd a partridge in his game-bag.

"An agreeable surprise," he reﬂected. "Almost too agreeable."