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climbed its hot slope Twelve

"I'll not look at the road for fiveat the watch open in her hand Five

, unbroken

sunshine "It ought to have been here by this ti of her lips Perhaps he ay? Her heart sank at that;

but how absurd! Suppose he was What did a few hours' waiting amount

to? She had waited thirteen years

For another hour she watched in the heat and silence of the garden;

then started to hear Sarah, at her elbow, saying that dinner was on

the table

"Very well," she answered impatiently "I'll wait another five

minutes," she said to herself But she waited ten When she sat down

in the dining-roo Once she asked Sarah if

she kne long it took for a despatch to coaped at the question, and said she didn't know as

she'd ever heard

In the afternoon, with covert glances out of the , she kept