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too? I've been out there so long I don't know much about the—the rules of the game, Miss Burnett. Maybe I oughtn't to tell you this while you're all alone here. Maybe I'm getting in all wrong again. Am I?"
Prue laughed uncertainly.
"It isn't wrong," she said weakly, "but it's—awfully silly."
"I can stand that. I've acted sort of loco from the start. There were the flowers, and the sandwiches—"
"But the sandwiches saved our lives," she murmured demurely.
"I suppose a chap who knew how to behave in society wouldn't have done those things. But I—it seemed as though I had to. It was all off with me the very first second I set my eyes on you. I never knew that women could be so beautiful and—and fine. You see, we don't have many of the nice kind out our way, and I've been there so long I'd forgotten about women I used to know. I just felt as though you
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