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Lady Connie

CHAPTER IV
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I undertake he shall give satisfaction.

The Lathom Woods just now are a dream!" "It is all a dream!" she said, looking round her at the beauty of field and tree, of the May clouds, and the grey college walls--youth and youth's emotion speaking in the sudden softening of her eyes.
He saw--he felt her--yielding.
"You'll come ?" "I--I suppose I may as well ride in Lathom Woods as anywhere else.

You have a key ?" "The groom will have it.

I meet you there." She flushed a bright pink.
"That might have been left vague!" "How are you to find your way through those woods without a guide ?" he protested.
She was silent a moment, then she said with decision: "I must overtake my people." "You shall.

I want you to talk to my mother--and--you have still to introduce me to your aunt and cousins." Mirth crept into her eyes.


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