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Gabrielle and Walter were seated together under one of the big oaks at the edge of the tennis-lawn at Connachan. With May Spencer and Lady Murie they had been playing; but his mother and the young girl had gone into the house for tea, leaving the lovers alone.
"What's the matter with you to-day, darling? " he had asked as soon as they were out of hearing. "You don't seem yourself, somehow."