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"Please, Jim," begged Rose Hubbell, "you will come with me today?"
She was proposing a walk in the country and Jim was demurring. It was Sunday in May and a beautiful day of golden greens which he had longed to share with Horatia. But Horatia had gone to a family dinner party at Aunt Caroline's and refused to include him, because it was such a very family party "with antique aunts and uncles who'd watch us and speculate with the most indecent curiosity. " He was bored but disinclined to see Rose Hubbell. If he could not be with Horatia, he could get pleasure out of the thought of her anyway. But Mrs. Hubbell insisted.