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 him and kissed him; but he would not kiss her back. He had made up his mind that all was over between them.

When Anne perceived that it was really a question of a final break, she begged for just one more chance.

"Don't you understand that if you leave me—I'll die? I wouldn't blame you a bit for leaving me after the way I've acted, but I'd die just the same. You don't know how much I love you."

Edward: "You have objectionable ways of showing it at times."

Anne: "But you don't want me to die—do you?"

Edward: "Of course I don't want you to die."

Anne (feeling that she has won a small victory): "I love you so much that there is nothing else in the world and I'm not able to see beyond you."

Edward: "If you really loved me, you'd trust me. Imagine me cutting up and making a fool of myself just because you wanted now and then to see some old friends of yours."

Anne: "But you're not jealous. Can I help it if I am jealous?"

Edward: "You don't even try."

Anne: "But I am going to try. I am never going to be bad any more. I swear it."

Edward (beginning to relent and to be a little