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 "What nonsense!"

"It's not nonsense. If you think agreeable things, it's your Christian duty to say them. It helps more than anything in the world."

"Well, everybody else has done his Christian duty to-night, so can't you let me off?"

"No—for you're the only one who counts."

"I don't know, you know. I always put my foot in it when I try."

Mrs. Martin sighed and smiled. "No matter—it's really too hard work to extract it. You were great at the table. I should never have swung it without you."

"Ground out a few ancient tales—that's all I did. You were the whole thing."

"I had a splendid time. I felt as if it were my last fling."

"Your last fling?"

"Yes. To-morrow, you know—"

"To-morrow? Well, what happens tomorrow?"

"Priscilla comes home."