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"No--oh, I couldn't do that!"

"You would be safer, perhaps"

"I am not a coward I shall remain here, of course"

"But I had rather you went inside"

"And I o inside, Charmian"

"No, indeed, my mind is made up"

"Then I insist, Char up her head, "you forget

yourself, I think I per,

and I obey noof you"

"And I refuse, sir--

"Why, what--what are you going to do?" she cried, retreating as I

advanced towards her

"I ae"

"You would not dare!"

"If you refuse to walk, how else can you get there?" said I

Anger, anation, all these I saw in her eyes as she

faced er ain, and with a stalance wavered beneath e little sound that was neither

a laugh nor a sob, and yet so of each, she turned upon her

heel, ran into the cottage, and slammed the door behind her