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Ll? Your voice is so strange. _Are_ you?" "No!--Is it _you_, Valerie?"
"You know it is!" "Where--are you?" "In my room--where I have been all
day." "You have been--_there_! You have been _here_--in the city--all
this time--" "I came in on the morning train. I wanted to be sure. There
_have_ been such things as railroad delays you know." "Why--_why_ didn't
you let me know--" "Louis! You will please to recollect that I had until
midnight ... I--was busy. Besides, midnight has just sounded--and here I
am." He waited. "I received your letter." Her voice had the sweet,
familiar, rising inflection which seemed to invite an answer. "Yes," he
muttered, "I wrote to you." "Do you wish to know what I thought of your
letter?" "Yes," he breathed. "I will tell you some other time; not
now.... Have you been perfectly well, Louis? But I heard all about you,
every day,--through Rita. Do you know I am quite mad to see that picture
you painted of her,--the new one--'Womanhood.' She says it is a great
picture--really great. Is it?" He did not answer. "Louis!" "Yes." "I
would like to see that picture." "Valerie?" "Yes?"--sweetly impatient.
"Are we to see each other again?" She said calmly: "I didn't ask to see
_you_, Louis: I asked to see a picture which