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 know this. For the first time he failed to recognize her voice.

"Are you busy just now?" she asked, with some sharpness.

"No, not for an hour or so. I have an appointment later. Why?"

"I thought if you cared to come and see me"

"You mean now?"

"Yes, if you"

"Why of course, if you wish," he said politely. "I'll be there immediately."

He was there within ten minutes, in fact, and when he came in, still obviously surprised, he found her seated in the pretty chair and apparently reading. She looked up languidly; then, as he sat down, facing her, she murmured a word of thanks for his coming. "Good of you to be so obliging, Walter."

"Not at all," he said cordially. "You wanted to see me about something?"

Her eyes opened wide with the full look she gave him then. "I'm not sure," she said slowly, "that it's necessary to add 'about something.

He was mystified; plainly so. "You wanted to see me?"

"Yes."