7/40 I hope it's not true, Marmaduke. If it is not, I beg your pardon with all my heart." Marmaduke stared very hard at her for a while, and then said, with the emphasis of a man baffled by utter unreason: "Well, I _am_ damned!" at which breach of good manners she winced. "Hang me if I understand you, Marian," he continued, more mildly. |