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He stopped dead short when he saw her so white and fragile looking. Then he exclaimed, "Zara-you have been ill!"
"Yes," she faltered.
"Why did they not tell me?" he said hurriedly, and then recollected himself. How could they? No one, not even his servant, knew where he had been.
She dropped back unsteadily on the sofa.
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