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she exclaimed with genuine surprise . `` What extraordinary things it does ! I have just seen history made between the lightings of a cigarette , as it were . Now comes this man and announces that since midnight he has met and won the lady who is to rule his heart , and that he is to marry her at six ! '' `` Then congratulate me ! '' I demanded . `` Ah , '' she said , suddenly absorbed ; `` it was that tall girl !