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He felt like answering: "I was, till I saw you again;" but instead he stood up abruptly and glanced about hi park

"This is horrible Why shouldn't we go out a little on the bay? There's a breeze, and it will be cooler We lanced up at hi there won't be anybody on the boat My train doesn't leave till evening: I' back to New York Why shouldn't we?" he insisted, looking down at her; and suddenly he broke out: "Haven't we done all we could?"

"Oh"--she lancing about her as if to take counsel of the scene, and assure herself of the i in it Then her eyes returned to his face "You s like that toI won't open my mouth unless you tell me to What harm can it do to anybody? All I want is to listen to you," he staold-faced watch on an enaive et you away froain "At eleven"

"Then you must come at once"

"You needn't be afraid--if I don't come"

"Nor you either--if you do I swear I only want to hear about you, to knohat you've been doing It's a hundred years since we've ain"

She still wavered, her anxious eyes on his face "Why didn't you come down to the beach to fetch me, the day I was at Granny's?" she asked

"Because you didn't look round--because you didn't knoas there I swore I wouldn't unless you looked round" He laughed as the childishness of the confession struck him

"But I didn't look round on purpose"

"On purpose?"

"I knew you were there; when you drove in I recognised the ponies So I went down to the beach"

"To get away from et away froain, this time in boyish satisfaction "Well, you see it's no use I may as well tell you," he added, "that the business I came here for was just to find you But, look here, we must start or we shall miss our boat"