s not such a long time, after all.'

But she interrupted him with some impatience:

'Michael, how can you recall such nonsense? But of course you are only
doing it to tease me. As though I were not much happier than I was
then!'

'Are you really happier, Audrey--really and truly, my darling?'

'Oh, Michael, what a question! Am I not your wife? Is not that answer
enough? Do you think I would change places with any other woman in the
world, or even with my old self?'

And as he looked at her bright face he knew that she was speaking the
truth, and that Audrey Burnett so loved and reverenced her husband that
she was likely to be a happier woman than Audrey Ross had been.

THE END

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