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 : Yes. She loves him, and he wants her. She’ll come. She’s already said she’ll come, in answer to his letter that Barrett took down this morning.

He was itching to write all last night all the evening he was thinking of her, with us in the room. When he went to bed, I heard him come down again for paper. I saw the light under his door till four o’clock. Oh, yes, she said she would come on the impulse of that letter  but when she thinks  when she looks in the glass  you remember yesterday  when she saw him in the garden  she wouldn’t stay then. She went away because she was afraid.





Because she thought it was her duty to go, for your sake because Chris was yours, and she couldn’t hurt you.







You know I’m not.