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The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories

CHAPTER III
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"Of course.

When will you come ?" "On Sunday ?" she ventured.
"It won't be working then." "No.

But other days you are busy." Jeff dropped upon his knees again in front of her, and turned his attention to brushing the worst of the mud from her skirt.

He attacked it with extreme vigour, his smooth lips firmly shut.
At the end of nearly a minute he paused.

"I shan't be too busy for that any day," he said.
"Not really ?" Doris sounded a little doubtful.
He looked at her, and somehow his brown eyes made her lower her own.
They held a mastery, a confidence, that embarrassed her subtly and quite inexplicably.
"Come any time," he said, "except market-day.


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