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 "And so you should have been, if you hadn't been so busy with this dinner," whispered Claire. "I hadn't the heart to interrupt—and it was all so sudden. Why should we ask mother, who did not entirely approve, to have a gorgeous wedding that we did not want? And why should I ask my lonely man to wait when in all things essential I was prepared?"

"Well," exclaimed Mr. Larry, his hand gripping that of Jimmy Graves, "who would expect adventures in thrift to lead to the altar—where they usually start?"

"I think," said Teresa Moore very gently, "that Claire has chosen the better way—she has learned first. She takes no chance with love."