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 "Oh, Els, wouldn't it be wonderful if"

"If what?"

"Nothin'! But some people run into the rottenest luck. Why didn't it come before. . . ." She checked herself before she said aloud "I married Billy." "Elsie, have you got any o' that rouge left, I'm awful pale."

"What you gonna do, hon?"

"It's one-fifteen. . . . Guess I can make the two o'clock ferry to Fort Lee."