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Rh to confess it to me pretty soon now. I think we've gone through almost everything else."

"Then tell me about him first," the girl commanded. "There's something so delightfully British and—foreboding about him that I—"

"Foreboding! Foreboding's just the word, Miss Varris," Preston congratulated. "I've been trying to think ever since I met him exactly what his charm was and—'delightfully foreboding,' that's it!"

"Tell me then," the girl asked again impatiently, "where did you meet him, and how?" 44