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She took the note out to the stable to George and bade him carry it to

the Rectory; as she went back to the eli redly upon her fro for David made her

hurry indoors But there the silence, unbroken by the child's voice,

was unendurable; it seehts into

actual noise So she went out again to pace up and down the little

brick paths between the box borders of the garden The ht had es of blackened leaves and glittered on the

brown stems of withered annuals Once she stopped to pull up soant, spilling its seeds fro the frosted flowers; and once she picked, and put

into the bosom of her dress, a little belated hted outer petals She found it

iical outcome;

her mind flew like a shuttlecock between a dozen plans for Williaht,

desperately But the futilepassed without decision After

dinner she went resolutely into the parlor, and sitting down on her

little low chair, pressed her fingers over her eyes to shut out any

possible distractions "Now," she said, "I willup and down thedropped on the sill,

then began to buzz again Through the Venetian blinds the sunshine

fell in bars across the carpet; she opened her eyes and watched its

silent ible, so irresistible; the nearest line

touched her foot; her skirt; climbed to her listless hands; out in the