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This morning I awoke, laughing, laughing in delight--thinking I heard you laughing, too--as once--in the dusk where there were many roses and many stars--big stars, and very, very bright--I saw you--saw you--and the roses--" She paused with a pained, puzzled look of appeal.
"Where was it, Phil ?" "In Manila town." "Yes; and there were roses.

But I was never there." "You came out on the veranda and pelted me with roses.

There were others there--officers and their wives.

Everybody was laughing." "Yes--but I was not there, Phil.