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"And she looks after him, alone?" asked Miles.


"Except when she gets off for a week or two now and then, as she did this time. Then she has an attendant come in. I don't suppose there's much money. Probably she makes all they have. A very attractive girl I thought her. She was popular, too, at the classes; they called her—what was it? Ah, yes, the Princess."

"The Princess!" muttered Miles.

"Yes, she had a way about her. . . . And then her hair, you know! The Princess, yes, that was it. She was with me only one winter. Then she went to Paris; I gave her letters. I think she was doing very well there when her mother died and, of course, she had to return. I haven't seen her for a year or two, I think. She's as—as beautiful as ever, Miles?"

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