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Suddenly she began to feel frightened Some evil spirit, possibly

the kettle, see here, to cast doubts on what she had hitherto regarded as

the one rock-solid fact in the world, her love for Geoffrey Could

she have changed since those days in Wales? Life had been so

confusing of late In the vividness of recent happenings those days

in Wales seeirl of a year ago She found herself thinking about George Bevan

It was a curious fact that, the e

Bevan, she felt better It was as if she had lost her way in a

wilderness and hadabout George And hoell he had behaved at that last

interview George seeine a life in which he had no share And he was at this

to return to A stabbed at her heart It was as if she

were realizing now for the first ti

She tried to rid herself of the ache at her heart by thinking of

Wales She closed her eyes, and found that that helped her to

re it all back--that

rainy day, the graceful, supple figure that had come to her out of

the mist, those walks over the hillsIf only Geoffrey would

coht of him that she needed