A Social Meteor — page 130: what you’re looking at

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120 A SUCIAL METEOR. be a scene, unless she was clever enough to pre- vent it. So while his back was turned she escaped to her room. She knew that this was a cowardly thing to do, as Lee would undoubtedly unburden himself to Georgie, and owing to the false impressions she had given him earlier in the afternoon, he was certain to make some disagreeable remarks to her. However, she was sure that Georgie would stand up for her, and equally so that Lee would not betray what she had told him; adding to that the fact that Lee was so desperately in love that he would listen to whatever his fiancee might say, and to allow matters to be smoothed over she felt that she had pursued the best course open to her. Nevertheless, she glued her ear to the crack of the door, ready to run in whenever she was in danger of receiving a “black eye.” She did not care how bitterly they felt toward each other, or how much suffering her misrepresentations might cause either or both of them, but she must be pro- tected at any cost. With her, self-preservation was indeed the first law of nature. She clasped her hands on the door-knob and leaned her face upon them, waiting anxiously for the first words which she naturally supposed ‘EGomichooks co