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hoenan, would find nothing necessarily unconvincing in such news?"
She seemed to change before his eyes, losing suddenly this strange, new, earnest manner of hers which had surprised and held him. She drew the opera cloak over her shoulders.
"I did not think you would quibble with me," she said angrily; "and since that is the case I will not keep the friends who came here with me waiting any longer."
The sudden change in her angered and pained him—he did not know why.
"Your visit does not seem to have accomplished much," he could not resist saying.
"I have freed myself from any responsibility for the danger you run," she returned promptly. "Since nothing I can say appears to have any effect on you, I do not care what
