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Alice Adams

CHAPTER VIII
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"I was shootin' dice with those coons in the cloak-room." "And he saw you ?" "Unless he was blind!" said Walter.

"Come on, I'll dance this one more dance with you.

Supper comes after that, and THEN we'll go home." Mrs.Adams heard Alice's key turning in the front door and hurried down the stairs to meet her.
"Did you get wet coming in, darling ?" she asked.

"Did you have a good time ?" "Just lovely!" Alice said, cheerily, and after she had arranged the latch for Walter, who had gone to return the little car, she followed her mother upstairs and hummed a dance-tune on the way.
"Oh, I'm so glad you had a nice time," Mrs.Adams said, as they reached the door of her daughter's room together.

"You DESERVED to, and it's lovely to think----" But at this, without warning, Alice threw herself into her mother's arms, sobbing so loudly that in his room, close by, her father, half drowsing through the night, started to full wakefulness..


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