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94 and left it without a soul—as the dead so often leave the living—

[She forces a little laugh]

if you get what I mean.

[Thinking worriedly]

Slipping back into that morbid tone first time in a long while

[Teasingly]

Hello! Do I hear graveyards yawning from their sleep—and yet I observe it’s a gorgeous morning without, the flowers are flowering, the trees are treeing with one another, and you, if I mistake not, are on your honeymoon!

[Immediately gaily mocking]

Oh, very well, old thing! “God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world!” And Pippa’s cured of the pip!

[She dances up to him]

[Gallantly]

Pippa is certainly a pippin this morning!

[Kisses him quickly]

You deserve one for that! All I meant was that ghosts remind me of men’s smart crack about women, you can’t live with them and can’t live without them.

[Stands still and looks at him teasingly]

But there you stand proving me a liar by every breath you