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"When we are married," Dick answered with silly masculine

self-consciousness

"And that is to be soon!"

"As soon as I canas she

does now; and there's no reason e shouldn't cut it short"

"No reason at all I don't wonder you feel so Good-by, both of you"

Dick saw her to the door and Madeline walked out with her usual

deliberate serenity

She found her way home with bottled-up eets to the spot whereshe had done and said seemed to have been

the act of some far-away self, that had hardly any connection with the

real Madeline The earth danced around her and she was incapable of real

thought And yet the well-trained, automatic body that was her outer

shell conducted itself with reason It even stopped in the living-room

to kiss her mother; it apparently skimmed a new copy of Life; it

convoyed her slowly up stairs to her own room, where it shut and locked

her door But here her real self resumed control, as she threw herself

into an easy chair by theand stared out at the desolation of

Dece clouds