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''Those things don't always work. She took it home again,and threw it into her jewellery box. They are very sweet little things. Yes, that would be the way to go.

I just wish it was over. She had met working-class boys before, but never gotclose to one. And hehad thought how ironic it was that coming to this place,about which he had had such misgivings, was changing herinto a person about whom he had no misgivings at all. 'We'retalking if not the eleventh hour here, then certainly thetenth.