THE ENCHANTED HAT
wear your hair in two plaits down your back?"
"That is regular; it is still the custom; it proves nothing."
"Let me recall a rambling old garret where we used to hold wonderful shows."
Her fan opened again, and the tendrils at her temples moved gently.
"Once we played the Sleeping Beauty, and you said that I should always be Prince Charming. How easily we forget!"
She inclined forward a bit. There were signs of reviving interest. She began to scrutinize me; hitherto she had surveyed and examined me.
"Once—"
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