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"What awen

"I want you to know there is somebody there besides

yourself"

"Well, don't I know it?"

"You co

there When Paul ca to hi--it is like

cattle--or nothing----"

"You ," he said

They were silent She sat watching hi and chaotic She turned to her sewing

again But the sight of her bent before hie, hostile, do Yet

not quite hostile As he sat he felt his lith

She was silent for a long tinantly, of the round shape of her head, very intihed The blood burned in

him, her voice ran to him like fire

"Come here," she said, unsure

For some moments he did not move Then he rose slowly and

went across the hearth It required an almost deathly effort of

volition, or of acquiescence He stood before her and looked

down at her Her face was shining again, her eyes were shining

again like terrible laughter It was to hiured He could not look at her, it burnt his

heart

"My love!" she said