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Sara remembered her brother's warning as she leaned against the rail and watched in a sort of dream the horses go by; so near that she could touch them, so beautiful that they made a sore place round her heart, so satisfying that she felt that all her life she had been waiting for this. It _would_ be an anti-climax if a pair of those dainty heels flashed into the sunlight and half-killed her.
"What are you amused about?" asked Chitterne who never missed any expression on Sara's face.