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the night that we landed, and she refused 

 me.' 



'Poor dear fellow. And what about Mr. 

 Miller ? He did not propose, did he ? ' 



' No, he did not. In fact they did not seem to 

 hit it half as well as she and I did the last three 

 or four days of the passage, and when Mrs. 

 Lancelot invited us both to dine at her house 

 in New York the evening we landed, he de- 

 clined. I went and got refused for my 

 pains.' 



' You are quite sure that he never asked 

 her to marry him.' 



' Certainly ; besides, it would have been no 

 good if he had, as she is in love with another 

 man.' 



' How do you know ? ' 



' Because she told me. I actually dared to 

 ask if there was no hope for me even in the re- 

 mote future, for I would wait ten years for her 

 rather than not get her, but she told me so 

 plainly that it could never be, that I had to ac- 

 quiesce in the inevitable. In fact, although it 



