I said , clinging to him , regardless of appearances . `` Oh , I 'm so glad to be back . '' `` That 's right , Kitty . I knew you would n't forget us . How well you are looking ! '' `` I suppose I ought to be looking wretched , '' I said penitently . `` I 've been behaving very badly , Jack . Wait till we get away from the crowd and I 'll tell you all about it . '' And I did . I did n't gloss over anything , but just confessed the whole truth . Jack heard me through in silence , and then he kissed me . `` Can you forgive me , Jack , and take me back ? '' I whispered , cuddling up to him . And he said -- but , on second thought , I will not write down what he said . We are to be married in June . A Substitute Journalist Clifford Baxter came into the sitting-room where Patty was darning stockings and reading a book at the same time . Patty could do things like that . The stockings were well darned too , and Patty understood and remembered what she read . Clifford flung himself into a chair with a sigh of weariness . `` Tired ? ''
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