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"Did you think I was afraid?" she asked him, without a shade of

annoyance

"No; I knew you weren't afraid"

"Then why did you come? Why didn't you stay out there with the others?"

"I never thought of it"

"Thought of what?"

"Of anything What difference does it ly

"I know you are"

"You don't know anything about it Why should you know? I never was so

exhausted in my life But it isn't unpleasant A thousand eht I don't co; I a aloud I wonder if I shall ever

be stirred again as Madeht I

wonder if any night on earth will ever again be like this one It is

like a night in a dream The people about s There ht"

"There are," whispered Robert, "Didn't you know this was the

twenty-eighth of August?"

"The twenty-eighth of August?"