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 : Well, you see  it’s like this. I’m worried. She she isn’t likely to come in and find me here, talking to you?

(with a glance at the window) : No not just yet.

But I had to come. You see I’m worried.



There’s something going on and I don’t know what it is. And she isn’t happy. And that’s the truth of it.



What Margaret likes to tell me she tells me, and what she doesn’t’s no business of mine. And I trust her, see?



I don’t know what she comes up here for every afternoon—and I don’t want to know, see? She told me an old friend of hers had been wounded, and that’s enough for me. I take it she comes up here to see him.

It’s my cousin, Captain Baldry.

(fiercely) : I wasn’t asking for no names! (Subsiding) I beg your pardon, miss, for