Excerpt from The Other Man's Wife

"This is the sweetest thing you have ever written to me."

An affectation of amused bewilderment was the young man's answer to her pause.

As he lay on the sofa, his eyes opened. But they seemed, if they expressed anything, to express entire absence of mind.

"You know what I mean, " she said.

Then she drew from her bodice a small piece of folded paper. "You know now, " she persisted, walked to the sofa, sat down by his side, and read: -

"My Darling, - By all means. - Who kisses your eyes? - Richard."

She looked at him tenderly, confident in his love, and seeking only some slight formal appreciation from him. But he made no reply.

"Isn't it sweet?" she asked, intent on exciting his interest.

"You like it?"

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