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After he had gone, looking boyish and reluctant, she would lie for a

little while watching the door Perhaps he had forgotten so, and

would come back! One day he did, and was surprised to find her suddenly

in tears

"You came back!" she said half hysterically "You came back"

That was the only tione out, and suddenly he caught her in his arently, and she saw that he was pale

"I think I'd better go now, and not co and endless days he did not come Then on the third

he came, very stiff and for back and watching him, felt what a boy he was after all, so

deter, so obvious with his blue-prints, and

so self-conscious

In June she left the hospital and went to the country She had already

made a little market for her work, and she wanted to carry it on By

that time, too, she knew that the break must come between Clayton and