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The following day Dorothy was her old cheerful self-or so Tavia thought. They did not shop with such abandon, but took matters more easily. And they returned to the hotel for luncheon and for rest.
"But he isn't here! " Tavia exclaimed, when they entered the big restaurant for the midday meal. "And I remember now he said last evening that he would probably be down town almost all day to-day-trying to sell that property of his, you know."