Her Faithful Knight — page 325: what you’re looking at

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Darcy Finds His Wife. 321 “That’s odd, for I generally see everybody in church, and I don’t remember you.” “Don’t walk so fast,” he pleaded. ‘“Can’t I get to know your people somehow? I know something about them. Mr. Aylmer Read, of the Daily Post, DP ve met several times.” “Fle’s my cousin. But he’d be fearfully angry if he knew a stranger had talked to me.” “Then don’t tell him. But can’t I call to-morrow after- noon? You can pretend you met me at a dance or some~ where, you know. Are your mother and sisters very particular ?” “Oh, mamma is very strict and Tey nice by fits and starts. And I haven’t any sisters.” “If there is only your mother in the biniag with you I’ll risk it. She’s sure to have a nap in the afternoon.” “She does sometimes. But we have a visitor staying with us.” “Not a man! Oh, Miss Read, don’t tell me it is a man. I shall be awake all night with jealousy.” “How dreadfully absurd you are!” exclaimed Rosa, with a little scream of laughter, deciding, as the light of a road lamp fell on his face, that her new admirer was quite the handsomest man she had ever seen. “Of course it’s not a man, though it’s really no affair of yours, and you mustn’t detain me now. I am in a hurry to help decorate the church and be back by dinner time.” “T am not detaining you. And I must call at your house. You must invent some story to-morrow to quiet the two old ladies ) “Our visitor is not an old lady. She is perfectly love- ly, and I dare say if you were to see her you wouldn’t want to look at me again.” “The woman does not exist whom I would rather look COMMICLOO S (C@