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"Why, Nancy Ellen --!" said Kate, then fled to the kitchen too

happy to speak further

None of theot that week It was such a happy time that

all of them dreaded its end; but when it came they parted

cheerfully, and each went back to work, the better for the happy

reunion Kate did not return to Walden until Monday; then she

found Mrs Holt in an evil temper Kate could not understand it

She had no ed his

one on his return, and would

not be back until after tiain The only way

for hi the week he had planned to come out

openly as her lover, was to try to find her at her home, or at her

sister's He did not feel that it would help hio where he

never had been asked His only recourse was to miss a few days of

school and do extra work toin

life as he detested work, so the world's happy week had been to

the and unhappiness, for which Mrs Holt

bla to court Kate Bates

strenuously; his disappoint Monday forenoon she went to