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Youdo, sometimes!" Anastasia scolded her; but then confessed what I took to be Mother's commoner delusion; "other times she seems to think I'm Yourwife or something. . ."
I smiled and kissed again Mother's poor mad hair, and to her folly drew Anastasia near, patted her fine flat gut and nodded.
"That's cruel, George!" In a little temper My Ladyship went into the Observation Room. "I'm not evenable to have babies, and You know it!"
My apology seemed rather to encourage than to mollify her petulance; she maintained a more or less injured air while recounting Peter Greene's strange forenoon invasion of the office. But though I was much interested in her tale I forgot her vexed tone when I looked through the oneway glass into the Treatment Room and saw a shirtsleeved man his head swathed in bandages, lying on the leathern couch -- and Peter Greene, white-coated, in the chair at its head!
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