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 were the girl I'd been living for and working for all my life, and that you must feel it and know it. I thought all I had to do was to stay around and—and be nice to you and some day you'd get to like me. That was silly, wasn't it? And I didn't realize that I was making a cad of myself by following you around the country."

"I never said that," replied Prue softly.

"No, but I guess you thought it."

"No." She shook her head at the stove lid slowly. "No, I never once thought that of you. I did think you were—were—"

"Go on," he said with a harsh laugh. "I can stand it."

"Only that you were—sort of silly and—and impetuous."

"Impetuous! What else could I be? You don't understand. You've never been in love like this, I guess!"

"How do you know that?" she asked quietly.

He recalled Gordon's chatter about Kingdon Smith.