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184 her to be kind to, to take care of for a little while.

"I'll do my very best to make you happy, Helen," he said quietly.

There was something in his voice that struck through the wall of Helen's personal suffering behind which she had shut herself for so long. She leaned toward him. She grasped one of his hands with both of hers.

"I'll do my best to make you happy, too," she said fervently.

Neither of them ever forgot their promise.