THE GIRL IN HIS HOUSE
"I'll be delighted to see her."
"And remember what I said about googoo eyes." Burlingham laughed.
Armitage got up. He knew enough for his present needs; the picture puzzle was fairly complete, and such blocks as were missing were easily to be supplied by imagination. He leaned against the mantel and idly kicked an andiron—a Florentine wine-muller. "Yucatan. And nobody knows when he'll be back?"
"She hints of the possibility of his return during the holidays."
Have they changed the interior any?"
Only enough to show that a woman instead of a bachelor lives there now. She's very much in love with everything. She had very little to bring into it. Do you know, Jim, you've changed?" concluded Betty, appraisingly.
"Older?" quizzically.
"No. There are lines in your face I never saw before. You are positively handsome."
"Piffle! Fat's been burnt out, that's all."
"No, that isn't it. You look—well, I can't just explain it."
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