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As they went down the stairs -- those same stairs on which only two evenings before they had first met -- toward the drawing-room where their great announcement was to be made, Riatt stopped Christine in her triumphal progress.
"You're not going to have the supreme cruelty," he said, "to let poor Hickson think that our engagement is a genuine one?"