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"Why should you hear from him?" His voice cut like a knife "Look at

me Why should he write to you?"

"He cared for me, Harvey"

He sat in a heavy silence which alared "I couldn't bear it It wasn't my

fault, or his either"

"The damned scoundrel!" said Harvey thickly

But she reached over and put a tre hand over his lips

"Don't say that," she said "Don't! I won't allow you to When I

think what may have happened to him, I--" Her voice broke

"Go on," Harvey said in cold tones she had never heard before "Tell it

all, now you've begun it God knows I didn't want to hear it He took

you to the hotel at Dunkirk, the way those foreigners take their women

And he established you in the house at the Front, I suppose, like a--"

Sara Lee suddenly stood up and drew off her ring

"You needn't go on," she said quietly "I had a decision to ht, and I have o back to where ere before I left It isn't possible You are

what you alere, Harvey But I've changed I can't go back"

She put the ring into his hand