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AFTER GAINING HER POINT.
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'Good-morning, Dick—no, really I didn't recognise you for an instant.'

He looked again at the gay tresses and hat. 'You've never dressed so charmingly before, dearest.'

'I like to hear you praise me in that way, Dick,' she said, smiling archly. 'It is meat and drink to a woman. Do I look nice really?'

'Fancy,—fie! you know it. Did you remember,—I mean didn't you remember about my going away to-day?'

'Well, yes, I did, Dick; but, you know, I wanted to look well;—forgive me.'

'Yes, darling; yes, of course,—there's nothing to forgive. No, I was only thinking that when we talked on Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday about my absence to-day, and I regretted it so, you said, Fancy, so did you regret it, and almost cried, and said it would be no plea-

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