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The Zeppelin’s Passenger

CHAPTER XX
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I was thinking about you last night.

I don't believe I have ever realised before how terrible it would be if you really were discovered.

What would they do to you ?" "Whatever they might do," he replied, a little wearily, "I must obey orders.

My orders are to remain here, but even if I were told that I might go, I should find it hard." "Do you mean that ?" she asked.
"I think you know," he answered.
"You men are so strange," she went on, after a moment's pause.

"You give us so little time to know you, you show us so little of yourselves and you expect so much." "We offer everything," he reminded her.
"I want to avoid platitudes," she said thoughtfully, "but is love quite the same thing for a man as for a woman ?" "Sometimes it is more," was the prompt reply.


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