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Then she hid the diary in a drawer, under her confirmation dress and veil, and locked the drawer carefully

He was not at church in the evening either He had thought of it, but decided that it was too et into decent clothes

"I shall see her soon enough," he thought, "curse enerosity! Six o'clock, forsooth, and all to please a clergyhter"

She caoing to be ill," she said "I feel so odd, just as if I hadn't had anything to eat for days,--and yet I'ry either I daresay I shan't wake up in tiet there by six"

She ake before five

She ith a flutter of the heart What was it? Had anything happened? Was anyone ill? Then she recognized that she was not unhappy And she felt h it were days since she had had anything to eat

"Oh, dear," said Betty, ju out, to -lesson!"

She dressed quickly It was too soon to start Not for anything h it were only for a drawing-lesson That "only" pulled her up sharply

When she was dressed she dug out the diary and wrote: "This is terrible Is it possible that I have fallen in love with hiht?' It is a e too What a long life of loneliness stretches in front of me! For of course he could never care for me And if this is love--well, it will be once and forever with me, I know

"That's my nature, I'm afraid But I'm not,--I can't be But I never felt so unlikevery wonderful was very near me Dear Diary, what a co to!"

It seemed to her that she must certainly be late She had to creep down the front stairs so very slowly and softly in order that she ht not awaken her step-father She had so carefully and silently to unfasten aand creep out, to close theagain, without noise, lest theo on tiptoe through the shrubbery and out through the church yard One could cliet into the Park that way, so as not to meet labourers on the road ould stare to see her alone so early and perhaps follow her