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HE AND SHE.
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(Dick looks at her with compassion, and is going to reply.)

Fanny: Ah! Don't make matters worse by denying it! Don't tell a falsehood! Don't tell a lie!

(Dick looks at his audience, as if to make it witness. Then turns smiling to his wife.)

Fanny: Well! What is it? Why won't you speak?

(Dick still silent, takes out of his pocket a velvet case, which he gives to his wife.)

Fanny (looks at it, and reads the inscription): "To Fanny, on her twenty-second birthday. From her devoted husband." And you went up to London to get this for me, and were kept until the last train? Only for that! (With a sudden revulsion.) Oh, Dick! how good of you! Oh, Dick! I do love you, Dick! (Throws her arms round his neck.)

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