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Captain William Farnsworth sat in his room, opening his morning mail. Or rather, his morning mail was waiting to be opened, while he eagerly perused a letter from Miss Patricia Fairfield.
"For the love of pickled peppers! " he exclaimed, in a self-addressed murmur, "she _didn't_! she _couldn't_!"