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CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE
wife. You can accompany me, if you wish, of course."
"I shall sail," he added, "the seventh of October."
He was as white, by then, as the wedding-dress of Banny Doodle, whom Marion had dragged contemptuously by one leg, and flung head downward in her father's arms. I stood staring at those two spots of whiteness—the doll's dress and the man's face. Everything else in the room had turned black. I could not even see my child. But I heard her rippling:
"Pity Popper!"
I think she asked him to kiss her. And I think he did.