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 “Do you think it so unfortunate?” she asked in a low voice.

“On the contrary.” He was looking at her now, but she, having said so much, dared not return his glance. “Nor would they if they could drive with you, Pauline. I am blessed beyond my deserts.”

“Some people always are.”

He was rather glad she took it like that. It — made things easier. Memory was hard at work. ~ Scenes, incidents in which she had played no — inconspicuous part, rapidly unrolled them- — selves. It was all so short a time ago, and yet — how far away it seemed. What would she say ~ if she knew? What she would think he guessed. : This pale moon-girl’ was eclipsed in the gor- — geous, sun-like rays of Andromeda. Androm- ~ eda! He almost wondered if he breathed © the name aloud. Yet there was contrast too: — the pale lily of chastity, the flaming, glorious — rose. He looked more closely at her and won- — dered at the difference in women. 3

Why he had not asked her to be his wife he could not say. The word had bubbled to his — tongue a score of times; there were occasions — when the touch of her hand had made him >

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