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given him to receive her seated at his desk. He set for her the chair she had occupied the evening before near his round table in the center of the room; but he continued to stand.
If she was at all embarrassed by the knowledge that he must have fully realized the result of his expedition with her in the evening before, she did not show a trace of it.
"Mr. Farren, who is still waiting outside, tells me you have recognized him," she commenced in an even voice.
"Yes," he answered, "but as yet, I have not recognized the reason for his presence here more definitely than I was able to recognize it last evening."
"For the present," she returned in the same tone, "you may regard it as merely to lend emphasis to what I have to say."
