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 Charlotte was nobody. Not after the way she beat Lady Salisbury! And she's a good little thing, and a straight little thing, and wouldn't waste a dollar of Perry's money to the longest day she lived. I can tell he's been thinking about it, too. Trust a woman to know such things! Now, Joe, you mark my words: If those two aren't married before Thanksgiving I miss my guess!"

Perry stayed late that night, and before he left he had promised to take Charlotte to the station next day in time to catch the two o'clock train.

"We'll start about noon," he said, "so you'll have time to come home and have lunch with me. I'll ask my Cousin Fanny to telephone you first thing in the morning. She's a cousin of my mother's," he explained, "and has been keeping house for me the last two years."

Mrs. Phair grew very arch after his departure.