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Gradually the feeling assailed her that she was being watched. At length the conviction became sufficiently strong to cause her to lower her paper and look round. There, sure enough, in an open doorway, stood a young man.
She rose rather suddenly to her feet. This was presumably Mr. Danvers.
"Excuse my staring so hard," said Geoff rather awkwardly, as he came forward. "I didn't mean to startle you."
"I'm here to be looked at, you know," was the smiling retort, and then a confused silence prevailed.
Any embarrassment before strangers was an unusual experience, and Evarne found herself consciously casting around in her mind for something to say.
"May I put my daffodils into water--I should be sorry to see them fade?" she asked at length.
For answer Geoff impulsively seized a bunch of roses by their unhappy heads, whipped them out of their vase and flung them aside.
"Put your flowers here," he said.
"You need not have done that," suggested Evarne somewhat reproachfully. "There was plenty of room for my daffodils beside your roses."
There was another pause.
"Do you believe in omens?" asked Geoff suddenly.
"I hardly know," was the uninspiring response.
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