“You have something to tell me; do you mean to marry?” he said abruptly. Lily’s eyes did not falter, but a look of wonder, of puzzled self-interrogation, formed itself slowly in their depths. In the light of his question, she had paused to ask herself if her decision had really been taken when she entered the room. “You always told me I should have to come to it sooner or later!” she said with a faint smile. “And you have come to it now?” “I shall have to come to it—presently. But there is something else I must come to first.” She paused again, trying to transmit to her voice the steadiness of
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