The Social Secretary THE SOCIAL SECRETARY by DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS Author of The Plum Tree The Cost etc. etc. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CLARENCE F. UNDERWOOD Decorations by Ralph Fletcher Seymour New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers Copyright 1905 The Bobbs-Merrill Company October Copyright 1905 The Bobbs-Merrill Company October The Social Secretary [Pg 1] [Pg 1] The Social Secretary I November 29. At half-past one to-day—half-past one exactly—I began my "career." November Mrs. Carteret said she would call for me at five minutes to one. But it was ten minutes after when she appeared, away down at the corner of I Street. Jim was walking up and down the drawing-room; I was at the window, watching that corner of I Street. "There she blows!" I cried, my voice brave, but my heart like a big lump of something soggy and sad. [Pg 2]Jim hurried up and stood behind me, staring glumly over my shoulder. He has proposed to me in so many words
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