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A Pot of Tea

it, a jolly old sunset. You know, I never noticed things like sunsets until lately. Poetry too, there’s a lot more in poetry than I ever thought.”

“Red hair,” said Tuppence unemotionally, writing it down. “What height should you say the lady was?”

“Oh! tallish, and she’s got ripping eyes, dark blue, I think. And a sort of decided manner with her⁠—takes a fellow up short sometimes.”

Tuppence wrote down a few words more, then closed her note book and rose.

“If you will call here tomorrow at two o’clock, I think we shall have news of some kind for you,” she said. “Good morning, Mr. St. Vincent.”

When Tommy returned Tuppence was just consulting a page of Debrett.

“I’ve

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