The Age of Innocence

on the key of the lamp as she turned to him slowly. The heat from its flame had brought back a glow to her face, but it paled as she looked up.

\"On business?\" she asked, in a tone which implied that there could be no other conceivable reason, and that she had put the question automatically, as if merely to finish his own sentence.

\"On business, naturally. There's a patent case coming up before the Supreme Court—\" He gave the name of the inventor,


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on the key of the lamp as she turned to him slowly. The heat from its flame had brought back a glow to her face, but it paled as she looked up.

\"On business?\" she asked, in a tone which implied that there could be no other conceivable reason, and that she had put the question automatically, as if merely to finish his own sentence.

\"On business, naturally. There's a patent case coming up before the Supreme Court—\" He gave the name of the inventor,


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