Love at the Loom — page 79: what you’re looking at

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ie) CHAPTER X. THE BLOW FALLS. Goldie could=not comprehend then what it was im: Gas Mildred. that made her select such subjects for her von nversation. Not that there was anything singular in wie a” a common thing, as Goldie very well knew. _ But somehow it did not seem as if Mildred would be one of the sort to talk of such things to a stranger, for, veil her feelings as she might, it was yet ee ee ‘apparent to Goldie that her hostess was as proud and: : cold as an iceberg. | _ Why then had she gone to the factory to get Goldie for a companion with whom to discuss the subject of Hove and lovers? _ Goldie looked at the dark beauty~as she reclined girls talking to each other of their lovers, for that was — aby as seo ae ioe: ee <* with Oriental grace on the divan, and the instinct of - bitter enmity between them troubled her. She did not understand her own feelings, however, — and therefore did not know how to act. She felt she must go away; and yet she remained because there yet remained the necessity of being put right before ‘Mildred and her father by Donald. “Have you ever had a lover?” asked Mildred lan- ve ge, /, as Boa turned her dark eyes on Sg comic ee