“It’s all right,” said Clara, unconsciously laying her hand on his arm.
“My dear,” said Mr. Graham to his wife some time later, as they were in their room together, “my dear, didn’t Clara call the doctor John?”
“I didn’t think you noticed it,” answered Mrs. Graham.
“I did, though,” said Mr. Graham. “It seems to me, though there were no burglars to take our silver, that Pennington has taken our little woman’s heart.”
“Fair exchange is no robbery,” remarked Mrs. Graham; and her husband looked at her, and nodded several times as though something pleased him.
Butler Munroe.
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