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"The trouble,to feed and comfort

too many"

"Jean," she said suddenly, "where is Henri?"

"In England, I think"

The only clear thought in Sara Lee's one without telling her She had hurt hiht never come back to the little house

of mercy There was, in Henri, for all his joyousness, an implacable

strain And she had attacked his honor What possible right had she

to do that?

The htful kindness came back, and it was a pale

and distracted Sara Lee who looked across the table at Jean

"Did he tell you anything?"

"Nothing, ry with me, Jean"

"But surely no, h they said nothing more, Jean considered the matter deeply

He understood now, for instance, a certain strangeness in Henri's manner

before his departure They had quarreled, these two Perhaps it was as

well, though Jean was by now a convert to Sara Lee But he looked out,

those days, on but half a world, did Jean So he saw only the wo deeper And in Sara Lee a wo more