He continued to smile. "Would you really come?"

"Oh yes, oh yes. Try."

"Do you want me to take our tickets?"

"Yes, take them."

"Without any luggage?"

She showed their two armfuls, smiling at him as he smiled at her, but so

conscious of being more frightened than she had ever been in her life

that she seemed to see her whiteness as in a glass. Then she knew that

what she saw was Sir Claude's whiteness: he was as frightened as

herself. "Haven't we got plenty of luggage?" she asked. "Take the

tickets--haven't you time? When does the train go?"

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