[The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton CHAPTER XXVII 10/21
I've got to go through with it." "Another girl, I suppose ?" she demanded, turning away to look at herself in the mirror. He shivered.
He was in a curious state of mind but there seemed to him something heretical in placing Edith among the same sex. "It is an engagement I can't very well break," he confessed.
"I'll come in again." "You needn't," she declared, curtly.
"When I say a thing, I mean it. I've done with you." Burton crossed the threshold into the smaller room, where Mr. Waddington appeared to be deriving a certain amount of beatific satisfaction from sitting in an easy-chair and having his hand held by Miss Milly.
They both looked at him, as he entered, in some surprise. "What have you two been going on about ?" the young lady asked.
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