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... There were girls who let themselves be kissed for fun.... Playing “Kiss in the Ring,” being kissed by someone they did not mean to always be with, all their life ... how sad and dreadful. Why did it not break their hearts?
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Meg Wedderburn was smiling on her hearthrug, being thanked and praised. Her brown violin hung amongst the folds of her skirt.
“People do like us,” mused Miriam, listening to the peculiar sympathy of the family voice.
Meg was there, away from her own home, happy with them, the front door shut, their garden and house all round her and her strange luggage upstairs in one of the spare rooms. Nice Meg....