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"There's nothing disreputable about eating sandwiches on the grass," he assured her; andindeed, when they spread their simple provision out under the great pines back of theTrianon, she seemed to agree with him, eating with a hearty appetite, laughing at all hisjokes, and, with a fresh color and sparkling eyes, telling him that she had never enjoyed ameal more."Good for you! That's because you work too hard at your old history of music."—By thistime each knew all the details of the other's research—"You ought to have somebodyright at hand to make you take vacations and have a good time once in a while. You'retoo conscientious."Then, because he was quite frank and unconscious himself, he went on with a simplicitywhich the most accomplished actor could not have counterfeited, "That's what I'm alwaystelling Maggie—Miss Warner. She's the girl I'm engaged to."He did not at the time remark, but afterward, in another land, he was to recall withstartling vividness the quick flash of her clear eyes upon him and the fluttering droop ofher eyelids. She finished her éclair quietly, remarking, "So you are engaged?""Very much so," answered Harrison, leaning his back against the pine-tree and closinghis eyes, more completely to savor the faint fragrance of new life which rose about them