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"Georgie" hair through the trees. It was of course Diana.

"Di."

"Oh, Georgie!" Her eyes were smiling at him as he plunged through the trees to meet her. "I've come to apologize for last night. I was a horrid little wretch to you last night."

"Di!" Stupidly he repeated her name.

"Anne has explained," she said happily.

"Explained? What on earth—"

"She told me yesterday before dinner, that you and she still loved each other. I knew, of course, that you had once been engaged, and when she said that now, you regretted—me, I—oh Georgie—"

"Good heavens!" Georgie was thunderstruck.

"When I looked out of my window last night," Diana said, "you were holding her hand. I saw you. But it's all right now. Anne has just been in to tell me that it was all a mistake. She misunderstood you, she said."

"Misunderstood!" Georgie gasped. 248