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"HAS the fated fairy prince put in an appearance yet?" asked Nora, laughingly, as they sat by their bedroom fire, and brushed out loosened tresses in that semi-abandonment of dressing-gown hours so dear to feminine friendship.
It was three weeks after Mrs. O'Neil's dance, and in those weeks there had been scarcely a day that Derrick Mallory had not met them in walk or ride, or dropped in at afternoon tea-time in the autumn dusk, excused by some message from his aunt, who saw a pretty bit of match-making ready to hand.