It was a safe subject. "How were the children when you left?"

"Tom was all right; but Chippie has been having the same old trouble

with his tonsils. They'll have to be cut again."

"I thought so the last time I saw him. And he's growing too fast for his

strength, poor little chap. I notice," he added, gazing at her more

intently than he had as yet permitted himself to do, "that he begins to

look like you."

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