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The Tempting of Tavernake

CHAPTER VI
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From that very first morning, when they had breakfasted together at London Bridge, he had felt that he deserved her confidence, and in a sense it was a grievance with him that she had withheld it.
"Did she recognize you ?" "Yes," he admitted.

"I was sent for into the office and found her there with the chief.

I felt sure that she recognized me from the first, and when she agreed to look at Grantham House, she insisted upon it that I should accompany her.

While we were in the motor-car, she asked me about you.

She wished for your address." "Did you give it to her ?" the girl cried, breathlessly.
"No; I said that I must consult you first." She drew a little sigh of relief.


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