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The Goddess Girl about blasting people's lives, you're jolly well mistaken. See!"

They saw. We all saw, and Anne rose with a little cry, white to the lips. I tried to draw Drusilla away, but she was spellbound by the interest of the moment, and waited.

"I've heard too much and read too much," Georgie went on with injured bitterness, "to expect constancy from any woman. And I'm sorry that I didn't see that I was in the way long ago."

"Georgie!" Anne began, but he stopped her with an indignant gesture.

"You needn't explain, "he said with a large magnanimity. "I have eyes, Anne, eyes and ears. I give you your freedom."

"Oh!" cried poor Anne. "Can't you see, Georgie, that I don't want my freedom?"

There was no doubting her sincerity, and I realized it with wonder, but Georgie clung to this point and shook his stubborn head. 71