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other side. There were ten of us as you will see if you refer to my Dinner Book. It was only toward the end of the evening that Mr. Renalds talked to me again. He then took a chair near by and I asked him about New York, when he was coming here again, if he had been hiding, how was Maow, the beach and a little about the Shepards & Sloanes. All too soon I was obliged to go. He had said he thought he would only come up again once. How long would it be before I saw him again?
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I knew I would see his back at church, but was that all? I confess to you, I would confess to no one else that, I dreamed about him all night. My first thought was for him in the morning.

I went to church as usual. Perhaps I took a little more care about my toilet. [[strikethrough]] than usual [[/strikethrough]]  I put on a light blue sort of muslin dress with black ribbons, a leghorn hat with roses and blue ribbons and long white gloves, and I sat just behind Mr Renalds for an hour and a half.  He only said