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... ''Did you use threats to him during the subsequent wrangle ?"
"Threats! Good gracious, no. I was angry witli him for spoiling Miss Layton's enjoyment. . I called him an ass, and said that he had better have remained away another year than come back and make mischief. That is all. Mrs. Eastham was far more outspoken'.
"Indeed. What did she say?"
"She hinted that his temper was a reminiscence of his southern birth, always a sore point with him, and contrasted me with him, to his disadvantage All very unfair, of course, but you see, she was the hostess, and Alan had upset her party very much."
"So you walked home, and resolved to hold out the olive branch?"
"Most decidedly. I was older, perhaps a trifle more sedate. I knew that Helen loved me. There were no difficulties in the way of marriage, which was arranged for the following spring. Indeed, my second ...
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