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 ? '' queried Patty sympathetically . `` Yes , rather . I 've been tramping about the wharves all day gathering longshore items . But , Patty , I 've got a chance at last .
Tonight as I was leaving the office Mr. Harmer gave me a real assignment for tomorrow -- two of them XXXXX fact , but only one of importance .
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