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She was regarding him now with the old curious look that had puzzled him. "You're just as perfectly nice as I knew you were," she announced, with an obvious pride in this bit of proved wisdom. "Good-night!" From a distance of five feet she bestowed the little double-nod upon him and fled. "Good-night!" he managed to call after her. Then he was aware that he had wanted to call her "Chubbins!"
He found new comfort in the reflection that his first-born would be a boy to grow up and be the idol of a nation. But a little later he was again thinking of her as "Chubbins," wishing he had called her that, wishing she had stayed longer out in the scented night the wonderful smoothness of her yielding cheek!
He could have sworn that the eyes of Breede's daughter gleamed with cold anticipatory malice. He shuddered for Breede. And he wished Tommy Hollins well of his bargain. Flirt, indeed! All alike! "Chubbins!" called the unconscious father from afar. "Yes, Pops!" She gripped his hand with a well-muscled fervour. "Oh, he'll have another in a little while, don't you worry!"
He liked that name for her. If he could only have said "Good-night, Chubbins " For that matter he basely wanted again to but he thought with shame that he had done enough for once. A pretty night's work, indeed! If Breede ever found it out When he left with Breede in the morning, she was on the tennis-court.
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