[The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories by Ethel M. Dell]@TWC D-Link bookThe Safety Curtain, and Other Stories CHAPTER IV 15/19
You are, aren't you? Oh, please say you are! But I know you are." She held out her hands to him with a quivering gesture of confidence.
"If you'll forgive me for--for fooling you," she said, "I'll forgive you--for being fooled.
That's a fair offer, isn't it? Don't let's think any more about it!" Her rainbow smile transformed her face, but her eyes sought his anxiously. He took the hands, but he did not attempt to draw her nearer.
"Puck!" he said. "What is it ?" she whispered, trembling. "Don't!" he said.
"I won't hurt you.
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