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aroused by any other form of contest. He noted, quite coldly and speculatively, it seemed to him, the changes of her face and skin and her deliberate and, he thought, simulated frankness.
"You mean you wish me to put aside my pique and consider, in what might be called a normal state of mind, what I have done?" he inquired evenly.
She nodded.
"Very well. I have considered."
"Then tell me what difference your consideration has made."
"None. I have done nothing yesterday or today or last night, as you seem to think"—he smiled—"that I would not do again now after hearing what you just have said."
"At least," she said, pale and looking steadily at him, "you will not deny to me
