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 to buy more, and the trip to Corsica too. I think I'll have to work in black and white. It won't hurt me."

"I suppose I'll have to look about for some work too."

Then Edward declared himself, and in a way that surprised and delighted her.

"I don't like to think of your posing for anyone but me," he said, in a kind of exasperated voice.

"You don't! Truly?"

"No. I don't."

"Why not?"

"I just don't."

Anne laughed in the darkness. A soft little laugh full of triumph.

"Edward," she said, "couldn't I have one last look at the picture before I go home?"

Edward did not answer.

She took his arm in a gentle possessive way and they walked slowly to the building in which he lived and worked.

Edward waked and lay in the darkness and wondered what Dear Mother would think of him now, if she knew, and Dearest Grandmother and his sisters, and his father, and John and Alice, and her mother and father. He told himself that he did not care; but telling was no use, he did