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"If only it doesn't mean--poor Granny!"

"Oh, no, no--she's ht, really There--we've passed it!" he exclaimed, as if that made all the difference Her hand re-plank onto the ferry he bent over, unbuttoned her tight brown glove, and kissed her paled herself with a faint smile, and he said: "You didn't expect ton to see you I'd ements--I very nearly crossed you in the train"

"Oh--" she exclaimed, as if terrified by the narrowness of their escape

"Do you know--I hardly remembered you?"

"Hardly remembered me?"

"I mean: how shall I explain? I--it's always so EACH TIME YOU HAPPEN TO ME ALL OVER AGAIN"

"Oh, yes: I know! I know!"

"Does it--do I too: to you?" he insisted

She nodded, looking out of the

"Ellen--Ellen--Ellen!"

She row indistinct against the snow-streaked dusk beyond theWhat had she been doing in all those four long months, he wondered? How little they knew of each other, after all! The preciousthat he had meant to say to her and could only helplessly brood on the mystery of their remoteness and their proximity, which see so close to each other, and yet being unable to see each other's faces