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Peter had accompanied Maggie as far as the subway station. "You won't mind if I don't go all the way home with you, Maggie? Fact is, I don't feel so well today, so if you'll excuse me -- " His voice trailed indeterminately.
Maggie smiled at him nicely. She was oddly happy at this moment. Linking her name with Philip's, as she had, gave her an odd sense of freedom, of sureness. "And Brian didn't seem at all surprised," she kept thinking to herself over and over.