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"Georgie" lightly. "I've had everything over and over again."

"And the Goddess Girl? How does she like the idea?"

Georgie's face fell, and he looked away across the fields.

"Girls," said he, "are curious things. It's all off with Phillida."

"Off?" I asked in surprise. "What?"

"Our engagement. She's off too."

"Georgie!"

"Yes," said Georgie, "by the midday train. Refused to see me at all, and left a note. Says she's only one complexion and means to keep it. Says she doesn't mean to begin housekeeping with a ready-made family. Says she's been thinking things over, and on the whole she doesn't consider that Englishmen make enough fuss of their wives. Says she likes the Yankee style of husband best."

"Poor old chap." I had plenty of real sympathy for a man who had possessed the Goddess Girl and lost her. "I'm very sorry," said I earnestly. 156