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However, I am
certain nothing could go far wrong when YOU are anywhere near."
Myra flicked the leader, who was inclined to "sugar," and they flew
along between the high hedges, brushing lightly against overhanging
masses of honeysuckle and wild clematis. Jane snatched a spray of
the clematis, in passing. "'Traveller's joy,'" she said, with that
same quiet smile of glad anticipation, and put the white blossom in
her buttonhole.
"Well," continued Lady Ingleby, "my house party is going on quite
satisfactorily. Oh, and, Jane, there seems no doubt about Dal. How
pleased I shall be if it comes off under my wing! The American girl
is simply exquisite, and so vivacious and charming. And Dal has
quite given up being silly--not that _I_ ever thought him silly, but
I know YOU did--and is very quiet and pensive; really were it any
one but he, one would almost say 'dull.' And they roam about
together in the most approved fashion. I try to get the aunt to make
all her remarks to me.


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