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"What's the use of butting in? If anything has
gone wrong with those two ..."
"You've always said there hasn't," Violet interrupted.
"And you've said," he countered, "that you were sure there had. Well,
then, if there's a chance of it, why run the risk, just for nothing?"
Jimmy, as it happened, had never heard even a suggestion that Rose and
Rodney were on any other terms than those of perfect amity. He hoped
they'd go on and tell him more. So to prevent their becoming suddenly
discreet, he promptly changed the subject.
"I thought you had a taboo against the Globe," he said to Violet. "How
did you happen to go there?"
"John went while I was in New York," she explained.
[Illustration: "Don't you know that that was Rose Aldrich?"]
"He's--well, a regular fan, you know. He hasn't missed a show there in
years. And he was _too_ queer and absent-minded and fidgety for words,
when I came back. I thought a bank must be going to fail, or something.
And when he said, after dinner last night, that he felt like going to a
musical show, of course I said I'd go with him.


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