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 "No fear," he said. "And if I did, they'd never notice. Why, they never noticed that you were worth two of Marion, and ever so much prettier."

"Am I?" said Pollyooly with some gratification.

"Now, it's nothing to get vain about; you can't help it," said Ronald in an admonitory tone.

"I'm not going to," said Pollyooly firmly.

"It's a funny thing that when you grow up you never seem to notice anything. You'd have thought that somebody would have spotted you," he said meditatively.

"They don't notice much," said Pollyooly.

"It's often a jolly good thing they don't," said Ronald smiling.

He went on to inquire about her plans; and his face fell when he learned that she was only going to stay a few days longer. He begged her to stay till the end of his holidays, pointing out that it would make it much safer for Marion if she did. But Pollyooly assured him that that was the term fixed; and in her heart of hearts she would not have had it longer. Pleasant as the court was, she wanted to get back to the Lump. Her uneasy feeling that it was not right that she should be having this