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 II

The Goddess Girl

ROM the terrace, through the French window, came Georgie, sunburnt and in flannels, to fling himself into an easy chair facing me; facing also the window. "Being engaged to Anne," he said abruptly, "is the very deuce."

I put down my book at heart full of sympathy; outwardly full of reproof. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," I said sternly.

"That's all very well," he moodily replied. "Perhaps I am; but it's driving me to my grave all the same, and if something doesn't happen pretty soon it'll be a precious early one."

I smiled. Georgie, in the bloom of healthy youth, gave no promise of premature decline. 37