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with a suggestion of a tremolo. "Perhaps we could walk across the churchyard?"
He hurried to the vestry with the sense of a reprieve.
She was waiting in the porch with her hands clasped, and smiled anxiously at the Vicar, who turned to lock the door behind him.
"Such a beautiful church!" she said as they walked on together.
"We consider it very beautiful."
"How the people must love it." Her manner was very childlike; she half turned to him, shyly, then turned away.
"Would you like another window?"
"A window?"
"A coloured window for the Lady Chapel. I would love to give you a window." She made the offer so simply that the Vicar felt as though he was being offered a kitten.
"But, my dear lady, windows like that are very expensive."
"I know," she said eagerly, "but I would be quite well able to afford one."
"A—a memorial window?"
"Memorial?"
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