"Learning, you mean, so easily, that you are
well."

It was as if Kate had but too conveniently put the
words into her mouth. " Learning, I mean, so easi
ly, that I am well."

"Only, no one's of course well enough to stay in
London now. He can t," Kate went on, " want
this of you."

"Mercy, no I'm to knock about. I'm to go to
places."

"But not beastly climates Engadines, Rivi-
eras, boredoms?"

"No; just, as I say, where I prefer. I'm to go in
for pleasure."

"Oh, the duck! " Kate, with her own shades of
familiarity, abounded. " But what kind of pleas
ure?"

"The highest," Milly smiled.

Her friend met it as nobly. " Which is the
highest?"

"Well, it's just our chance to find out. You must
help me."

"What have I wanted to do but help you," Kate
asked, " from the moment I first laid eyes on you?"
Yet with this too Kate had her wonder. " I like
your talking, though, about that. What help, with
your luck all round, do you want?"

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