The Craze of Christina — page 233: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. 229 impossible, and Ella had established herself in the sitting-room. A téte-d-téte was out of the question. The following morning they all three left Laén together. When Mark went to take their tickets at the station Chris said to him: “Take them all three as far as Amiens only.”’ “But I am going to London.”’ “Oh, very well,’ she replied, turning away coldly; ‘‘certainly, if you prefer it.”’ He hesitated for a moment, then took two rapid steps across the platform after her. ‘Ig it your special wish that I should break my journey at Amiens, Chris?”’ She looked up into his face and her eyes danced. ‘“‘Will it not give us a little longer together, - darling?’’ she murmured caressingly. ‘All right, of course then.’’ And he took all the tickets as far as Amiens only. It was at Amiens that she was to play her last card! They arrived early in the afternoon, and the sisters went to the Hotel de la République, whilst Clifford obeyed orders and repaired to his old quarters at the Couronne. “Tt was all very well in an out of the way CoOMnnielooOoK<Ssee)