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lessened that offence It came over her with still more acute

surprise, that she had never felt this before It was as if that fire

of shaht she had confessed to

Willia By its

glare she saw that such a secret as she and Lloyd held between theirl Lloyd had

felt it--here she tingled all over:--Lloyd was hter, and he kne almost

fanatical she was about truth; so he was especially sensitive But Dr

King? He had felt it about David: "whether you married this ht about this for

awhile in heavy perplexity

Then with a start she caain to what sheDavid up just as he wishes; and I

will tell him about my money; he doesn't kno rich I aht to rob David of such a chance And I will

say that nobody could love hi for hi to keep him? For his sake

she had not married! In this rush of self-approval she sat up, and

looked blindly off over the orchard below her at the distant hills,

blue and slumberous in the sunshine Then she leaned her head in her

hands and stared fixedly at a clu stubble She had chosen her child instead of a convention

which, less than a o it seemed to her that, once married, she could do no iven all this up for David!

Suddenly she spurred her mind back to that talk with Dr Lavendar: she

would proazing with intent, unseeing eyes at the clover, until the chilly

twilight drove her into the house