this is nonsense and not at all what I started out to write.
"I am a very busy young person and I don't get around the world much, and so I don't think we shall meet again. But please remember, if you care to do so, that I am wishing you all sorts of success—the kind that doesn't know discouragement!—and all happiness.
"Sincerely,
"Prudence Lynde."
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Miles slowly put the note back in its
envelope and dropped it in his pocket.
Then he sat for a long while staring
bewilderedly at the dusty road. It
seemed such a queer sort of thing to
have happened. It had never occurred
to him that he might fail. He had
fallen in love with the Princess suddenly
and thoroughly and with no
thought as to results; it had been
enough to see her and listen to her
voice; there had been no looking
