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230 she said.

said Bertie quickly;

he repeated.

She looked up, started at the quiet peremptoriness of his tone, and again there flashed into her mind the thought that had been there this morning, when she told him that there was a piece of him she did not know. At this moment she felt she localized it.

she asked.

asked Amelie, not quite recognising from what that question really sprang.

He paused.

he said quietly.

she said.

said Bertie.

Suddenly, and almost audibly in its distinctness, Amelie's mind said to her, Her love for him, frightened, ran, as it were, towards him, but stumbled over her pride. She did not answer him, but left the room, feeling sick at heart.