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"Georgie" thing to her? Because if you haven't, I would advise you not to. I don't think you have somehow. I have a sort of feeling that you wouldn't be engaged now if you had."

"Every chap," Georgie said quickly, "kicks up his heels some time or other. I'm not the only fellow who's played the goat a bit. I've given up that sort of tomfoolery now."

Anne sighed.

"I liked you better before you grew wise, Georgie." "It's hardly a case of your liking now." Georgie got his own back brutally. "When a man meets a girl like Diana, he naturally feels that he wants to settle down and leave all his careless habits behind him."

"With the other things he has forgotten to care about—betting, for instance, and poker, and bridge, and—and me. Have you mentioned your many engagements to Diana, by the way? If you haven't, don't! I don't fancy somehow 228