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Dick caught the full significance of Molly's speech after a moment. A stinging reproach rose to his lips, but the whiteness and misery of Molly's face restrained him. Under ordinary circumstances there would have been no occasion for anxiety, but with the halo of romance that surrounded blind Mary from the first, Dick saw the shadow of crime here.
-"How did it happen?" he asked as gently as possible.