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Suzette endured her lover's absence with a philosophical cheerfulness which somewhat surprised her aunt.
"Upon my word, Suzie, I am half inclined to think that you don't care a straw for Allan," Mrs. Mornington exclaimed one day, when her niece came singing across the wintry lawn, crisp under her footsteps after the morning frost.