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"Stop! Look! Listen! " cried Patty, gaily, as the unabashed intruder calmly seated himself on the broad, low window-sill. "Do you consider it good manners to present yourself in this burglarious fashion?"
"Well, you see, my room opens on this same veranda, -- indeed the veranda seems to run all around the house on this story, -- and so I thought I'd walk about a bit. Then I chanced to spy you, and -- well, I'm still spying. Is this your dinky boudoir? How fussy it is."