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For a moment -- one mad moment -- Lauraine forgets all else save that she loves. Then she snatches herself away from those fierce-clasping arms and starts back, covering her crimson cheeks with her hands, while at her feet the cluster of roses falls, and lies unheeded.
"Oh, Keith! " she sobs, terrified and dismayed.