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ike that for--for love,' she murmured. I blushed slightly. 'I scarcely think it's more than a passing infatuation.' 'I feel convinced it's stronger than that,' she replied tensely. 'I hope not,' I said in an alarmed tone. 'It would be horrid to see the poor fellow in the throes of a hopeless passion.' 'Perhaps after all it might not be quite hopeless,' rejoined Marion softly. I raised my head sharply. 'I don't think you are justified in that remark,' I said stiffly, 'what you saw between him and me was only a little harmless fun. As if, indeed, there is any man living who could make me forget dear old Henry for a minute----' 'You!' exclaimed Marion with a start. 'I wasn't thinking of you, Netta.' 'Then who----?' 'I--I--was referring to--myself.' She put down her knitting on her knee and looked at me half defiantly, her cheeks flushed. 'But, my dear Marion, when has he shown you the slightest attention?' I was impelled to remark. 'You have always professed the profoundest contempt for him.' 'Not contempt, Netta. I have remarked that he was untidy.' 'You said the other evening that you considered him to be the last man on earth a woman could like.' 'No doubt, dearest, but that was before I had discovered a woman kissing him.' 'Perhaps you regret it was not yourself in that enviable position, darling?' 'No, my love. I don't think the position of a married woman discovered kissing a man other than her husband _is_ enviable; do you?' Marion's obtuse and unreasonable attitude puzzled me. I am quick tempered, and was about to reply hotly, when the door opened and Elizabeth entered. 'Miss Marryun,' she said, nodding mysteriously in the direction of my sister-in-law, 'I bin lookin' at the cards for you an' I see a warnin' in 'em. You'll 'ave to keep an eye on 'im if you want to keep 'im.' Marion did not look so mystified as I expected at this unusual outburst. 'Thank you for the warning, Elizabeth,' she said in an affable tone. 'You gotta rival for 'is affeckshuns,' continued Elizabeth. Marion raised an eyebrow in my direction. 'No doubt,' she commented. 'What is all this nonsense?' I asked, a little testily. 'Elizabeth is, as you know, a fatalist,' explained Marion. 'She places her faith in cards, which, I am repeatedly telling her, is utter nonsense.' 'It aint nonsense,' expostulated Elizabeth in an injured tone. 'You gotta fair rival acrost your parth----'
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