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For Aubrey Gilbert
From Titania Chapman
With much gr

She paused.

"Oh," she said quickly. "Do I have to finish it now?"

She looked up at him, with the lamplight shining on her vivid face.
Aubrey felt oddly stupefied, and was thinking only of the little golden
sparkle of her eyelashes. This time her eyes were the first to turn
away.

"You see," she said with a funny little quaver, "I might want to change
the wording." And she ran from the room.

As she entered the den, her father was speaking. "You know," he said,
"I'm rather glad she wants to stay in the book business." Roger looked
up at her.

"Well," he said, "I believe it agrees with her! You know, the beauty
of living in a place like this is that you get so absorbed in the books
you don't have any temptation to worry about anything else. The people
in books become more real to you than any one in actual life."

Titania, sitting on the arm of Mrs. Mifflin's chair, took Helen's hand,
unobserved by the others. They smiled at each other slyly.

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