"What has gone wrong, Max?
You look fagged out." "Baroni has been round to see me--to ask me to break off my engagement." He laughed shortly.
"He doesn't approve, I suppose ?" "That's a mild way of expressing his attitude." Adrienne was silent a moment.

Then she spoke, slowly, consideringly.
"I don't--approve--either.

It isn't right, Max." He bit his lip.
"So you--you, too, are against me ?" She stretched out her hand impulsively.
"Not against you, Max! Never that! How could I be?
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