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Desire Farr was an observant young person, quite capable of drawing conclusions. "I'm not going to be sympathetic," she said. "That," with sudden illumination, "is probably what you ran away from. But you'd better be truthfull Was it a bullet?" "Shrapnel." "And the treatment?" "Rest, and the tablets in my bag." "Right I'll get them." It was quite like old hospital times.
I hesitated because I am by nature truthfull. But at last I said: "At school." "Oh," she said slowly. "So you met him at school! What was he doing there? Teaching elocution?" "Elocution!" "This is Harold, is it?" "Certainly." Well, he WAS Harold, if I chose to call him that, wasn't he? Sis gave a little sigh. "You're quite hopeless, Bab.
I then came home, for my home was my heaven; ever at that hour, as I entered our private sitting-room, the lady-directress vanished from before my eyes, and Frances Henri, my own little lace-mender, was magically restored to my arms; much disappointed she would have been if her master had not been as constant to the tryste as herself, and if his truthfull kiss had not been prompt to answer her soft, "Bon soir, monsieur."
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