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"What does your husband say?"

"I have not told hi He will

think I am demented, no doubt Perhaps you think so"

Mademoiselle shook her head slowly "Your reason is not yet clear to

me," she said

Neither was it quite clear to Edna herself; but it unfolded itself as

she sat for a while in silence Instinct had pro off her allegiance She did not kno

it would be when he returned There would have to be an understanding,

an explanation Conditions would some way adjust themselves, she felt;

but whatever ca to another

than herself

"I shall give a grand dinner before I leave the old house!" Edna

exclaiive you

everything that you like to eat and to drink We shall sing and laugh

and be h that ca

If Mademoiselle happened to have received a letter froive her the letter

unsolicited And she would seat herself at the piano and play as her