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=WAYS AND MEANS.=
I met her at the usual place, and she looked much the same as
usual--which astonished me rather.
"Now that we're engaged," I began.
"Oh, but we aren't," said Phyllis.
"Are you by any chance a false woman?" I asked. "You remember what you
said last night?"
"I do, and what I said I stick to. But that was pleasure, and this is
business."