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146 A Fair Fraud ‘I wouldn’t mind betting long odds that that ig nothing but a feint,’ he said, as he crumbled a biscuit between his finger and thumb, ‘and that the lady will change her mind before twenty-four hours have gone over our heads.’ ‘You are incorrigible,’ rejoined Marion, in- dignantly, ‘and altogether horrible} ’ Mrs Drury at this moment gave the signal _ for the ladies to leave the table, and Marion rose with the rest, the lines of her face set into anger and indignation. As he pushed back her chair for her, the barrister murmured a smiling reply to her last words, — ‘And you are adorable! What wouldn't a poor sinner give to have an advocate so generous and so charming as you can be!’ She meant to give him back a cutting reply, but their eyes met, and something that she saw in his set her heart beating tumultuously ; and when after a brief second her eyes fell con- fusedly under his ardent glance, Marion’s anger was no longer against him, but against herself, that she had become all at once so femininely weak. ‘He annoys and provokes me at every word, she said to herself furiously as she left the room, ‘and yet I am such a fool that I am incapable of overcoming the physical attraction that he exercises over me !’ COMNMUC <S (GO) JOO