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The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories

CHAPTER VI
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"Oh, Jeff, how kind of you!" "No, it isn't," said Jeff bluntly.

"I want you to be happy." She laughed her quick, light laugh.

"So you're going to spoil me ?" she said.
They reached the pretty Mill House above the stream and found breakfast awaiting them in the oak-panelled parlour that overlooked a sunny orchard.
"How absolutely sweet!" said Doris.
He came and stood beside her at the window, looking silently forth.
She glanced at him half-shyly.

"Aren't you very fond of it all ?" "Yes," he said.
"And I think I am going to be," said Doris.
"I hope you will," said Jeff.
She turned from him to Granny Grimshaw who entered at the moment with a hot dish.
"I don't think we ought to have been married so early," she said.

"You must be quite tired out.


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