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WAR "Yes! That is what I said."

"None of us are like ourselves any more," says Evelyn, "but none are so far from it as you, my dear, dear David. Think what you have said to me! Is it the war has set us all at each other's throats? Let us come back to each other! After all, what does all the rest matter if we have each other? Without you-all I have nobody—nothing. I am sorry for my part in it. Come! Let's put our arms around each other and make up!"

She holds out her arms and passes her eyes from one to the other, but some devil she had roused was in us all and held us, and none of us answered—not even Jon. She gets very pale and staggers a little, then drops her head on her breast and turns to go away.

"Wait!" commands Dave. "There are some questions you must answer. Wait!"

"Please let me go and kill myself!" she begs. But, then, she shudders and comes back to Dave as if she had thought of something terrible. 208