Page 292 (1/2)

Perhaps, for the first and last ti with her enerous and fine, but she saw hi as his love,

conventional, bound by tradition and early training, soid,

Calvinistic, and dominated still by a fierce sex pride

At once the weaknesses of the middle span, and its safety And,

woman-fashion, she loved hiht have taken her A smaller man would have let her

go Clay was--just Clay; single-hearted, intelligent but not shrewd,

blundering, honest Clay

She was one great ache for the shelter of his arms

She had a small sense of shame that, on that day of all others, she

should be obsessed with her own affairs

This was a great day That , if all ell, the as to

cease The curtain was to fall on the great melodrama, and those who

had watched it and those who had played in it would with the drop of the

curtain turn away fros of horeat day,

nevertheless Only thatthe white-capped fereat eyes: "So! It is finished, Madame, or soon it will be--in an hour or two"

"It will be finished, Suzanne"