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 to the shop, I'll tell him you won't be home."

"But you won't see him, for he went to Burlington; but I told mother I might stay."

Ruth hesitated a moment. She wanted to say just one word to John, and yet Robert's presence restrained her. She must content herself with a formal hand-shake, she thought, which is such a poor substitute for a lover's farewell. Did Robert catch the current of Ruth's thought? John, too, lingered a little, and, while Robert's back was turned, he bent over Ruth's upturned face and, kissing her for the first time, whispered, "Farewell, Ruth, and trust us."