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reotten promise to Dr Lavendar

But it was not until the next Monday afternoon that she roused herself

sufficiently to give o down to the Rectory and see the child It was another dark day of

clouds hanging low, bulging big and black ind and ravelling into

rain along the edges She hesitated at the disco out,

but she said to herself, dully, that she supposed she needed the walk

As she went down the hill her cheeks began to gloith the buffet of

the wind, and her leaf-brown eyes shone crystal clear fro all about her smooth

forehead The mist had thickened to rain before she reached the

Rectory, and her cloak was soaked, which made Dr Lavendar reproach

her for her iuotten them, he scolded her roundly

"I'll see that the little boy wears them when he co into her face

"David? David will look after himself like ayou, my dear, you'd better visit him a

little first I tell you--stay and have supper with us to-night?"