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GEORGE ADAIR did come to lunch, and took Hope off to golf in the afternoon. She was polite and distant with him, but he would not take the hint, and before the afternoon was over had hastened his fate, and been kindly but decidedly refused.
"I really did think you liked me," he said ruefully.