This was brisker still, but I held my way. "Almost anyone would do."

It seemed for a little, between humour and sadness, to strike her.

"Almost anyone _would_. Still," she less pensively declared, "we want

the right one."

"Surely; the right one"--I could only echo it. "But how," I then

proceeded, "has it happily been confirmed to you?"

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