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 was an American woman who was vice-queen of it all!

I always felt that Lord Hendley could read my thoughts. He read them then.

'You would really like to come back?' he asked, breaking in upon my reverie.

'Yes, oh yes, a thousand times yes,' I answered, looking round at him.

There was the light in his eyes that I love—the light that just goes straight away to the thing it wants and gets it.

'There's been an American Vicereine once,' he said.

I think something must have leaped up into my eyes too.

'Why shouldn't there be another?'

Did he actually whisper it, or was it only my vivid imagination that spoke the words.

Anyway, I'm in love, and I'm going to be a Duchess. What could any American girl anywhere want more? I guess it won't be just my fault if you don't hear of me knocking around again somewhere very soon. THE END

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