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With a touch of impatience, he added, “Let me know if you need help. Have you sufficient money to keep you until you find a job?”

“Yes, thank you.”

He eyed her narrowly and was about to speak when the study door was pushed wide and a dachshund trotted out and sat down beside the professor. “You haven’t met Henry—come and say hello to him.”

She crossed the space between them and stooped to pat the little dog. “Hello and goodbye, Henry,” she said, and rubbed a silky ear.

She stood up and offered a hand to the professor. “Goodbye, Professor.”

He took her hand and bent and kissed her. She had been kissed before, but this was different. The thought flashed through her mind that it would be delightful to be kissed like that every day…. But she would have to be content with once in a lifetime.