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A SOCIAL METHOR. 65 but was obliged to accede to her once more, for she told him plainly that on these two points she was determined to be obeyed. “Don’t think me unkind, but Pee been all through the horrors of one broken engagement, you must remember,” she explained, “and don’t propose to have my name before the public under the same circumstances again, for if anything should cut ours short, I would never hear the last of it.” He went up to her and took both her hands in his. “Tell me,” he said, earnestly, “has this hesi- tation anything to do with your other affair? Are you sure that your heart is free to give again ?”’ Georgie flushed a little beneath his gaze, but raised her clear eyes to his face as she responded, sincerely : “Perfectly. He has goneas entirely out of my life as if he had never existed. But if you do not care to trust me “Trust you, my darling?” he replied, passion- ately. ‘I’m only too glad to be able to do so. Let the past go, and let us never refer to it again. It must always be a painful subject for you, and Eomicbooks (E(0)