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BOOK NINTH: VANDERBANK are very much one and the same. My marriage has brought me, as it were, only nearer to Nanda. My wife and she, don't you see? are particular friends."

Mr. Longdon, on his side, turned a trifle pale; he looked rather hard at the floor. "I see—I see." Then he raised his eyes. "But—to an old fellow like me—it's all so strange."

"It is strange." Mitchy spoke very kindly. "But it's all right."

Mr. Longdon gave a head-shake that was both sad and sharp. "It's all wrong. But you're all right!" he added in a different tone as he walked hastily away.