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DR. ADRIAAN

go downstairs for tea. I have some reading to do: come with me . . . and stay with me this evening: will you?"

"Yes."

"Then it will be as if we were already at home . . . in our own home . . . at the Hague. . . ."

She went with him, pale, tired, listless, with his arm round her waist.