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brief discussion. Secretly he was delighted at her insistence in paying.
She carried her point. Their talk came round to their immediate plans
for the day. They decided to ride easily, through Havant, and stop,
perhaps, at Fareham or Southampton. For the previous day had tried them
both. Holding the map extended on his knee, Mr. Hoopdriver's eye fell
by chance on the bicycle at his feet. "That bicycle," he remarked, quite
irrelevantly, "wouldn't look the same machine if I got a big, double
Elarum instead of that little bell."
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Why?"
Jest a thought." A pause.
Very well, then,--Havant and lunch," said Jessie, rising.
I wish, somehow, we could have managed it without stealing that
machine," said Hoopdriver. "Because it IS stealing it, you know, come to
think of it."
"
Nonsense. If Mr. Bechamel troubles you--I will tell the whole world--if
need be."
"I believe you would," said Mr. Hoopdriver, admiring her. "You're plucky
enough--goodness knows."
Discovering suddenly that she was standing, he, too, rose and picked up
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