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The Goddess Girl out, and she has steadily refused to go with him since. He must have a companion, and I wouldn't trust myself in the dreadful thing for worlds. So what is the boy to do? They go off for long motor picnics all over the country, and come back with happiness shining all over them. They are a most delightful pair—even if he is my son. But what about Anne?"

In my mind I went over my last conversation with Drusilla, and smiled mysteriously.

"If I were you," said I slowly, "I wouldn't worry about Anne yet." Georgie walked back to the village with me, and unburdened his soul in the hearty manner habitual to him on these occasions.

"There never was a more unlucky brute than me," he said with easy grammar. "How can I behave honorably, with a girl like that in the house driving me to distraction? She's divine! I try to keep away from her and then my mother sends us out together in the Scarlet Runner. She 53