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MariellaChapter 2
"My goodness it's warm today, Jack! I think rather than go any further today, I shall stay here and rest! Would you mind awfully if I laid down and closed my eyes!" It was a rhetorical question, of course: he was there to do his employer's bidding, and to safeguard her wellbeing in whatever way he could. Mariella lay on the grass, on her back. In the hot sun she was soon sleeping. She had pulled her husband's cap over her face to protect it from the harsh sun. Her waistcoat had fallen...