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expect them to be noted and remembered,” laughed Appleton.
“It is true I was very tired, and excited, and full of anxieties,” said Tommy meekly.
“Don’t apologize! If you tried for an hour, you could n’t guess just why I noticed and remembered you!”
“I conclude then it was not for my dazzling charms,” Tommy answered saucily.
“It was because you wore the only flower I ever notice, one that is associated with my earliest childhood. I never knew a woman to wear a bunch of mignonette before.”
“Some one sent it to me, I remember, and it had some hideous scarlet pinks in the middle. I put the pinks in my room and pinned on the mignonette because it matched my dress. I am very fond of green.”
“My mother loved mignonette. We always had beds of it in our garden and pots of it growing in the house in winter. I can smell it whenever I close my eyes.”
Tommy glanced at him. She felt something in his voice that she liked, something that
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