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THE parlourmaid cautiously slipped away from the vicinity of the house, and, keeping in the shadows of the trees that separated the garden from the orchard, stole through a gap in the hedge and turned, as if well accustomed to this procedure, to the right, and amongst a cluster of laurel bushes. In the darkness an arm stole round her waist, and a pair of ready lips sought hers. For a few minutes she and the owner of the arm indulged a mutual inclination for love making, in silence. But suddenly she disengaged herself from her unseen lover and began to whisper.
"How did you know I was there, Sim?" she asked.