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"Are you sorry, Peachy?" Julia asked

"No, I'ela, of

course Are you sorry, Julia?"

"No," replied Julia

"Julia," Peachy said, "as it changed you? I have alanted to

ask but I have never dared What brought you to the island finally? What

ht with us?"

The far-away look in Julia's eyes grew, if possible, more far-away She

did not speak for a while Then, "I'll tell you," she said si that I have never told anybody but Billy When you first

began to leave rewwith you And especially

flying by night Flying alone seemed melancholy I came here at first,

only because I was driven by my loneliness I said to myself that I'd

drift with the current But that did not help any You were all so

interested in your lovers that it an to think that you no longer cared for rown me, that all my influence over you had vanished, that, if

I were out of the way, the one tie which held you to rew more and more unhappy every instant

That was not all I was in love with Billy, but I did not know it I

only knew that I was e and in desperate despair And,