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Captivating Mary Carstairs by Henry Sydnor Harrison
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it ever since I arrived, and I've gotten rather to like it. But I'm
awfully afraid it's a wild goose chase."

Crack! Crack! went the mysteriously stirring woodwork, for all the world
like a living thing; and the lady again said "Oh!" And after that she
said: "You are not--in this room, are you?"

"I'm sitting quietly on the steps digging around for matches," he said.
"Would you prefer to have me come in there?"

"Would you mind--? Not that I'm in the least frightened, but--"

"It will give me great pleasure to come--faithfully searching my pockets
as I grope forward. Thus," he said, laughing, "I must grope only with my
head and feet, which is a slightly dangerous thing to do. Ouch! Where
are you, please?"

"Here."

"'Here' is not very definite, you know. I have nothing to steer by but
my ear. Would you mind talking a good deal for a while?"

"It is not often," she said, with further signs of a thawing in her
manner, "that a woman gets an invitation like that."

"Opportunity knocks at your door, golden, novel, and unique."

"The luck of it is that I can't think of anything to say. Would you care
to have me hum something?"

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