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yet what he might have to do in the afternoon, but please would she save the evening for him. She promised and started to tell him about Alan, then recollected that Henry was going to see her father immediately at the office.
Alan was standing, waiting for her, when she returned to the breakfast room.
"Ready to go down-town?" she asked.
"Whenever you are."
"I'll be ready in a minute. I'm planning to drive; are you afraid?"
He smiled in his pleasant way as he glanced over her; she had become conscious of saying that sort of thing to tempt the smile. "Oh, I'll take the risk."
