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 wanted to be liked! And how little idea she had of the home, his home, to which he was taking her!

He gazed from her to her presents piled on the floor beyond her seat. It was not yet too late to prevent her from offering them; he had still time to explain that it would be far, far better for her to come to his father's home empty-handed, in poor clothes and plain in appearance. Then his father would know that David had married his wife out of no lust of the flesh.

David swung about, denying such a notion. They would see her as she was and bearing the gifts for them which she, herself, had selected.