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"On that night?" asked Jen, eagerly.,"I forgot," she said. "I never can remember that you're both the same age. You are always saying that he is so young, Miss Pat.",Dinner was long over, Judith's lessons done and bed-time come, when at last Patricia hurried down to the long parlor where Doris sat in the dim light.,"That will be difficult.","I mean no such thing," retorted Etwald, opening the door. "All true comedies end in the meeting of lovers.","What do you mean?" asked Maurice, turning his still frowning face toward this strange and enigmatic man.,Jen was about to explain when he remembered the necessity of keeping silent concerning the visit of Isabella to the house.,"I am glad to see you, major," said she, holding out her hand. "You have saved me the trouble of a journey, as I was on my way to your house.","No, no!" said Jen, hastily. "Do not bring any one here as yet, David. We must think of this poor girl. Take her home at once. When you are both out of the house I shall give the alarm. You understand--no one must know that Miss Dallas has been in my house at this hour.","They killed Maurice!",David spoke so fervidly that Jen saw plainly he meant what he said. The massive face of the young man looked worn and haggard in the searching light of the morning, and whatever enmity the love of the same woman had sown between him and the dead, it was not to be denied that he was suffering cruelly from remorse at their unhappy difference. Jen was sorry, but even in his own grief he could not forbear a stab.,"She had your room all fixed with the best covers, but Elinor persuaded her to reconsider it," smiled Patricia. "You're going to be as much at home as any of us, Frad dear, and I'm glad the time will soon be here for your school to shut up and let you come H-O-M-E, home.".