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On the night before the wedding Kit looked suddenly and attentively at his father. He had been absorbed--yes--happily absorbed in that mysterious new future, and now that it was so near he seemed to come back to his normal self for a moment, much like a man who has been packing before a journey and who realizes when he has finished it that a whole night lies between him and the morrow.
They were standing at a window--talking.