blood run flame like under her skin but he promised not to speak she cried he hasn t � to me but such things make themselves known should you have been content to go on in that way forever she raised her head and her rested in his if you were she answered simply the fruit of the tree again she checked him with a motion please tell me just what has happened not now � there s too much else to say and nothing matters except that i m with you but mr he asks you to come you re to see tomorrow her lower lip trembled a little and a tear flowed over and hung on her lashes but what does all that matter now we re together after this horrible year he insisted she looked at him again but what is really changed everything � everything not changed i mean � just gone back to where we were before she whispered and he whispered back to where we were before there was a of chairs on the floor and with a sense of release saw that the in the window was over the two visitors gathering their about them moved slowly across the room still talking to the matron in excited through which as they the threshold the younger woman s in broke out the op the tree i you if she does go back to him be the f me between than oh i t say that the other then they moved toward the door and a moment later it had closed on them turned to his wife with outstretched arms say you forgive me she held back a uttle from his hands not but as if with a lost scruple for himself then a nothing left of the horror she asked below her breath to without you � that s the only you re sure f sure it s just the same to you just as it was before just the same it s not for myself but you then for me � never speak of it he implored because it s not the same from her because it s wiped out � because it s never been never that and under close under his lips was her face at last they kissed they beard the handle of turn and quickly her band lingering in his under the fold of her dress j the fruit of the tree a nurse looked in dressed in the white uniform and pointed cap of the hospital fancied that she smiled a little as she saw them miss � the doctor wants you to come right up and give the the door shut again as rose to her feet remained seated � he had made no motion to retain her hand as it slipped from him i m coming she called out to the retreating nurse then she turned slowly and saw her husband s face i must go she said in a low tone her eyes met his for a moment but he looked away again as he stood up and reached for his hat tomorrow then he said without attempting to detain her tomorrow you must come away from here � you must come home he repeated mechanically she made no answer and he held his hand out and took hers tomorrow he said drawing her toward him and their lips met again but not in the j again at � and s birthday the was to this year with opening of the old house at as a kind of the fruit of the tree pleasure � concert hall and museum � for the of the mill hands the idea had rat come to on the winter afternoon when had confessed her love for him under the snow laden trees of even then the sense that his personal happiness was enlarged and secured by its promise of happiness to others had made him wish that the scene associated with the opening of his new life should be made to a corresponding change in the fortunes of but when the control of the mills passed into his hands other and more necessary improvements pressed upon him and it was not till now that the financial condition of the company had permitted the execution of his plan on her return to had found the � work already in progress and had been told by her and that he carrying out a projected scheme of s she had felt a certain surprise but had concluded that the plan in question dated back to the early days of his first marriage when in his wife s eyes his connection with the mills still invested them with interest since had come back to her husband both had avoided all allusions to the past and the house at being as she di in some sort an offering to s plaintive mo the fruit of the tree shade she had purposely refrained from questioning about its progress and had simply approved the plans he submitted to her fourteen months had passed since her return and now as she sat beside her husband in the carriage which was conveying them to she said to herself that her life had at last fallen into what promised to be its final shape � that as things now were they would probably be to the end and outwardly at least they were what she and had always dreamed of their being under the new rule the seeds of life they had sown there were springing up in a promising growth of bodily health and mental activity and above all in a dawning social consciousness the mill hands were beginning to understand the meaning of their work in its relation to their own lives and to the larger economy and outwardly also the new growth was showing itself in the aspect of the place s young were tall enough 