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"Forsaking all others, so long as we both shall live," he said,

unsteadily

"So long as we both shall live," she repeated

However she had to take it off later, for Mrs Wheeler, it developed,

had very pronounced ideas of engages They were put on the day

the notices were sent to the newspapers, and not before So Elizabeth

wore her ring around her neck on a white ribbon, inside her camisole,

until such time as her father would consent to announce that he was

about to lose her

Thus Elizabeth found her engage precisely as she had expected But she accepted things

as they ca of the type around which the dra totally undramatic herself She lived her quiet

days, worried about Jim on occasion, heht with her ring on her finger and a sense of

being wrapped in protecting love that was no longer limited to the white

Wheeler house, but now extended two blocks away and around the corner to

a shabby old brick building in a ay in the old brick house that night before the

departure, very noisy over the fish and David's broiled lamb chop Dick

deot a little

of it They toasted the seashore, and the departed nurse, and David