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She smiled faintly, but her face eary with tears "Oh, I just--

cauely

She had said to herself when, angry and wounded, she left hiarden, that if she went back to the house he would find her So she

had coe-house, and

sitting down on one of the cases had hidden her face in her hands

Little by little anger ebbed Justabsently at these dead creatures about her, or at a

thin line of sunshine falling through a heart-shaped opening in a

shutter, andnoiselessly across the floor A h it, then sank into the

darkness She followed it with dull eyes, thinking, if she thought at

all, that she wished she did not have to sit opposite Lloyd at dinner

But, of course, she would have to, the servants would think it strange

if she did not coer of sunshine

vanished, and all the h she saw hi spring landscape outside Her heart ca for her! Ah, this was the way

it had been in those first days, when he could not bear to let her out

of his sight!