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In such cross-currents of feeling, one does not think consecutively

Desires and ether until Helena said to herself

desperately, that she would not try to answer Lloyd's letter for a day

or two After all, as he had so clearly indicated, there was no hurry;

she would think it over a little longer

But as she thought, the next day and the next, the wound to her

affection and her vanity grewof

responsibility waned The sense of guilt had been awakened in her by

her recognition of a broken Law; but as the sense of sin was as far

froue that if no one

knew she was guilty, no further harht be in Lloyd's heart by insisting that he

keep his promise? With that worn face of hers, how could she insist!

And suppose she did not? Suppose she gave up that hungry desire to be

like other people, arranged to leave Old Chester--on that point she

had no uncertainty--but did not make any demand upon him? It was

perfectly possible that he would be sha his promise

She said to herself that, at any rate, she would wait a week until she