should have with any one, or have in any connection
whatever. " I mean that everything this afternoon
has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything
together will never be so right again. I'm very glad
therefore you ve been a part of it."

Though he still didn't understand her he was as
nice as if he had; he didn't ask for insistence, and
that was just a part of his looking after her. He
simply protected her now from herself, and there
was a world of practice in it. " Oh, we must talk
about these things!"

Ah, they had already done that, she knew, as much
as she ever would; and she was shaking her head at
her pale sister the next moment with a world, on her
side, cf slowness. " I wish I could see the resem
blance. Of course her complexion's green," she
laughed; " but mine's several shades greener."

"It's down to the very hands," said Lord Mark.

"Her hands are large," Milly went on, " but mine
are larger. Mine are huge."

"Oh, you go her, all round, one better which
is just what I said. But you re a pair. You must
surely catch it," he added as if it were important to
his character as a serious man not to appear to have
invented his plea.

"I don't know one never know's one's self. It's
a funny fancy, and I don't imagine it would have
occurred"

"I see it has occurred " he has already taken her
up. She had her back, as she faced the picture, to

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