In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories by Robert Barr
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"Yes, I admit that also, and the young lady's name was Miss Katherine
Earle." "Oh, you knew it, then?" "Why, certainly I did." "You knew it before you proposed to me." "Oh, I seem to have known that fact for years and years." "She told it to you." "She? What she?" "You know very well who I mean, George. She told it to you, didn't she?" "Why, don't you think I remembered you--remembered seeing you there?" "I know very well you did not. You may have seen me there, but you did not remember me. The moment I spoke to you on the deck that day in the broken chair, I saw at once you did not remember me, and there is very little use of your trying to pretend you thought of it afterwards. She told it to you, didn't she?" "Now, look here, Katherine, it isn't I who am making a confession, it is you. It is not customary for a penitent to cross-examine the father confessor in that style." "It does not make any difference whether you confess or not, George; I |
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