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 who means so much to you. When do you announce it?'

Not that he thought for a minute that there was anything to announce, but it had suddenly become imperative to him to hear her say that there wasn't. He gave her a second opportunity to tell him there was nothing serious in her relationship with Felix Nawn, and she didn't take the opportunity!

'I think you're going pretty far, Nevin,' she flashed.

'Not so far, I guess, as Nawn has gone.'

She shrugged.

They were hurting each other intentionally now.

'And to think I took you there for the purpose. In my car! Say, that's funny!' And he laughed out loud. 'Took you there, and sat outside in the cold and waited, while you and he were up there in his room having a nice warm time, I suppose.'

Sheilah replied, 'I think I'd rather go to the concert to-night, after all.'

He retorted lightly, 'Very well.'

He kept up a gay, blithe manner all the evening and Sheilah responded. He simply scintillated at the dinner-table. So did Sheilah. At the Glee Club Concert, with Sheilah on one side and Peggy on the other, he divided highly amusing remarks equally between them. And Sheilah laughed quite as spontaneously as Peggy. When, at midnight, he stood