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_If a man be kind to a pretty woman shall / it not be counted to him for righteousness? _
When Elsie Carston got the letter from Diana with its P. S., pregnant with meaning, asking her to telegraph for her at once on any pretext she chose, Elsie was triumphant. Marcus had failed. Not even the attractions of Scotland could hold Diana. She was evidently dying to get back to her aunt. It was no good forcing things down the throats, as it were, of young people: it was not what you gave them that counted, it was what you were to them.