A Fair Fraud — page 91: what you’re looking at

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80 A Fair Fraud This last question was asked with evident interest, and Mr Naylor's keen brown eyes were fixed intently upon his neighbour. Marion felt her colour rise. ‘Certainly. Yes, of course he admires her. Why should he be blind ?’ ‘He is an only son, I believe, Miss Blake ?’ ‘An only child, Mr Naylor. Why do you - smile ?’ she added a little angrily. ‘I beg your pardon if my smile annoys you, Miss Blake, but puzzles are amusing things.” ‘What do you mean?’ ‘I mean—well—I like putting puzzles t to- gether. Don’t you? And this puzzle—I think that I begin to understand it, that is all.’ And then he began to talk about the recent campaign in the Soudan, and Marion did not dare to ask for a further explanation of his meaning. GOMMGIOO oO C' Q)