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When the girls found themselves once more in the open air neither of them spoke. Then Annie said in a gasping sort of voice:
"I see quite well, Leslie, that it is all useless. I give up the hope which seemed so bright a short time ago. You have done your very best, and I thank you from my heart. I will go to Belle Acheson now. Perhaps something will turn up at the end of a week. At any rate, I have that week to turn round in."