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It was a certain dryness in his intonation rather than the words
themselves Frederica answered.
"She'd do anything in the world for you, Roddy," she said, with a
vaguely troubled intensity.
This time his mind didn't follow hers. For an instant he misunderstood
her pronoun, then he saw what she meant.
"Harriet?--Oh, yes, Harriet's all right," he said absently.
She left his preoccupation alone for a minute or two, but at last broke
in on it with a question. "How did you find out about it, Roddy? Who
told you?"
"No one," he said in a voice unnaturally level and dry. "I went to see
the show on the recommendation of a country client, and there she was on
the stage."
"Oh!" cried Frederica--a muffled, barely audible cry of passionate
sympathy. Then:
"Roddy," she demanded, "are you sure it's true? Are you absolutely sure
that it's really Rose? Or if it is, that she's in her right mind--that
she hasn't just wandered off as people do sometimes without knowing who
they are?"
"There's nothing in that notion," he said.


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