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A Puritan Bohemia "It all rested with you. You have decided it," he said vehemently. "If it is really better for you I am glad. But I don't believe that it is. And I sha'n't quite let you go. You can never get away from me. I shall haunt you. I'll be the blunder you will revert to, the unanswered question, the other possibility"

In his strong emotion he bent his head and kissed her.

"If you please 'm," said a polite little voice at the door, "I came to see if you wanted me to do any errands."

It was Annabel, gazing into the studio with fascinated eyes. The door had been left slightly open.

Anne's face was white when she said good-bye to Howard.

"If I ever wavered, now I am sure: I'll never surrender, never!"

In the fading light in the Square Howard Stanton saw upon his coat-sleeve a tiny fleck of brown paint.

"I'm a monumental fool," he said to himself.