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"No," she said,of you at all"

The inane voices of the Fyne girls were heard over the so to each other, thin and clear Heof so of somebody else, of someone who has nobody to think

of him but me"

His shadowy forainst the wooden support of the porch And as she stood still,

surprised by this staggering e to her

"Go in then Go out of ht you said nobody could love

you"

She was passing him when suddenly he struck her as so forlorn that she

was inspired to say: "No one has ever loved me--not in that way--if

that's what you mean Nobody would"

He detached himself brusquely froirls were already at the gate

All he understood was that everything was not over yet There was no

tiate He

whispered "Wait" with such authority (he was the son of Carleon Anthony,

the do enough

to hear him say that he could not be left like this to puzzle over her

nonsense all night She was to slip down again into the garden later on,

as soon as she could do so without being heard He would be there