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Updated: May 19, 2025

And she got out and he got out, and they looked so silly and she said, `M-m-my friend, Professor Reid, and he tried to shake hands with mother three separate times over, and couldn't find her hand, he was so horribly embarrassed, and then we all drove home in the most horrible silence, and came into the drawing-room, and Esther went crimson in the face, and said, `Father and mother, I want to tell you Professor Reid has asked me I have per- omised to be his wife, and he scraped his feet on the floor and blurted out funny short sentences, three words at a time, `Love her dearly, `Feel much honoured, `Object of life, `Make her happy, and mother said, `Oh, my dear child, I am so glad!

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