It
was a beautiful world, after all. "Let's try and forget that awful
newspaper," I said.
"I forgot it long ago, dear."
"You also seem to have forgotten that some one may appear any
minute."
"Let's try and forget that some one may appear any minute."
"I can't."
"You shouldn't say 'I can't,' Elizabeth; you should say 'I'll try'."
It is really surprising what one can do when one tries.
Chapter Twelve
"What would we have done with-out the duke`?" I murmured a moment
later.
"There's a more important question than that to be answered," said
Blakely; "we have still to decide what we shall do with the duke."
"I don't understand."
"It's my charming way of breaking news gently, sweetheart."
"Bad news?"
"Not exactly. It may annoy you."
"It annoys me that you seems afraid to tell it," I said.
"I'm not afraid, not the least bit. I'm, a little ashamed, though.
You see mother is . . ."
"Don't dare adopt an apologizing attitude towards your mother.
Hasn't she done everything in the world for us?"
"There are some things one would rather do for oneself, girlie. I
had quite set my heart on Perry Arnold being best man at our
wedding."
"And so he shall be.
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