[White Lies by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookWhite Lies CHAPTER XVI 26/28
He drove to the farmhouse; when the carriage drove up, a young lady looked out of the window on the first floor.
It was Rose de Beaurepaire.
She caught the doctor's eye, and he hers.
She came down and welcomed him with a great appearance of cordiality, and asked him, with a smile, how he found them out. "From your medical attendant," said the doctor, dryly. Rose looked keenly in his face. "He said he was in attendance on two paragons of beauty, blue eyes, white teeth and arms." "And you found us out by that ?" inquired Rose, looking still more keenly at him. "Hardly; but it was my last chance of finding you, so I came.
Where is Madame Raynal ?" "Come into this room, dear friend.
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