"
"I wasn't lost at sea, though, or I shouldn't be here with you," said
Hugh Egerton. He glanced rather wistfully in a puzzled way at the
lovely little face framed with blowing golden hair. There was something
in the child's eyes which stabbed his heart; yet there was sweetness in
the pain. "I'm afraid we're playing at cross purposes, aren't we?" he
went on. "Was it on a ship that you saw me?"
"Oh, I didn't see you on the ship," said Rosemary. "I only knew you went
away on one. I haven't seen you for ever and ever so long, not since I
was a tiny baby."
"By Jove! And you've remembered me all this time?"
"Not exactly remembered. It was the feeling I had in my heart, just as
Jane said I would, the minute I saw you, that told me it was you. That
was why I ran to keep you from going on in your motor car, because if
you had, I might have lost you again, forever and ever."
"So you might," said puzzled Hugh Egerton, pleased as well as puzzled.
"And that would never have done for either of us."
"It would have been dreadful," replied Rosemary, "to have to wait for
another Christmas Eve.
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