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waited and was disappointed," said Glasgow. 

 " I always looked upon you as a person who 

 kept your promises/' 



" There is only one thing more irrational 

 than making promises, and that is keeping 

 them," said Slaney, with a flippancy that 

 Glasgow was not accustomed to in her; 

 " but in this case there was no promise." 



" When a thing has happened very often, 

 one has a right to expect it to happen 

 again," he said ; " that is how one arrives 

 at most conclusions." 



" Sometimes things come to a conclusion 

 of themselves," said Slaney, with a little 

 laugh. 



She looked up and found his eyes waiting 

 to meet hers. They had an undisguised, 

 irrelevant tenderness, and Slaney was sur- 

 prised into accepting it for one silent 

 moment, while her heart beat and her head 

 swam. She recovered herself, as one might 

 struggle up out of soft ground. The thought 

 of Lady Susan was like setting her feet 

 again on hard rock. 



