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"Kate," said Daintry, looking up from a lesson book as her sister entered the dining-room a few mornings after the bazaar, "are you _never_ going to see old Peggy Jones again? I am sure that you have not been near her for a fortnight?"
"I ought to go, I know," Kate answered, pausing by the sideboard, with a big bunch of keys dangling from her fingers and an absent expression in her gray eyes. "I have not been for some time."