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Fane, why do you repeat it?"
"Merely to emphasise to you my disbelief in it, child," returned
Rosamund. "Do you understand?"
"Y-es; thank you. Yet, I should never have heard of it at all if you had
not told me."
Rosamund's colour rose one degree:
"It is better to hear such things from a friend, is it not?"
"I didn't know that one's friends said such things; but perhaps it is
better that way, as you say, only, I cannot understand the necessity of
my knowing--of my hearing--because it is Captain Selwyn's affair, after
all."
"And that," said Rosamund deliberately, "is why I told _you_."
"Told _me_? Oh--because he and I are such close friends?"
"Yes--such very close friends that I"--she laughed--"I am informed that
your interests are soon to be identical."
The girl swung round, self-possessed, but dreadfully pale.
"If you believed that," she said, "it was vile of you to say what you
said, Mrs. Fane."
"But I did _not_ believe it, child!" stammered Rosamund, several
degrees redder than became her, and now convinced that it was true.


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