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 his tears, but they ran through his fingers. He could not stop them, he had lost control.

Evelyn knelt beside him, kissing his wet face, pressing her wet cheek to his.

"I'll stay, Joe. I'll stay, darling. Don't you hear me? Don't you hear what I'm saying?"

When he heard the sadness in her voice, when she lay cold and quiet and pitying in his arms, he knew he must let her go.

"Evelyn hasn't been very well, and she's going abroad for a rest and a change with her mother and some friends," Kate told people. "No, unfortunately, Joe's too busy to get away just now. He and Hope are going to spend the summer with me. You know I've been fairly rattling round in the house since Carrie went to California."