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The odd thing in the affair, however, was that Mr. Benoliel did not seem satisfied. Cynthia asked him over the telephone the next day to come to her, and when he came she told him of her engagement.
"But no one knows of it as yet except yourself," she added; "and no one is to know, for the present. I want it kept a secret."