News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-04-15
'Well!' she exclaimed.

You have heard all about it, then
asked Wray.
Naturally | wanted to learn VIVA
had been happening during my ah
sence, she returned, and Pauline''
engagement formed the most inter
esting item
Very interesting, said Wray.
Bernard met me at Waterloo she
explained He had come direct from
Gloucester Place,
Il confess / don't quite understand
it, said Wray.
What perpleXes your
oh, we'll
is it unprecedented that woman
should change? asked Joan.
4 think l shall retort with your
own theory
What was that? she said. 'One
has so many. They depend to a great
extent upon the weather, upon ones
temper, and so forth
You tried to convince me-
4 protest that | never attempt to
proeelytize, Wray!'
That everybody is capable of one
grand passion, only of one
Did | really say anything quite as
foolish as that!' Joan exclaimed
L fanced you meant it, he retorted.
All, WE'LL | must have been car
ried away by the excitement of your
return. I assure you, | never talk
ia q 1uov in I OpdOn
4 have been out of it so long, you
see, joan
AT all events she said, you don't
look as if you are entirely broken
hearted
Certainly not, but still
Well? she urged as he hesitated.
I was rather tiabbergasted-jus at
first, you know.
AT first is good' she cried. How
long ago was it?'
About an hour
And she said, with laugh, you
have entirely recovered already
OF course, one has to bow to the
inevitable. The TACT is, he explained,
1 feel rather like fish out OF water.
Ny plans are all upset
You built yourself a lordly pleas
ure-house!'
'Well-it wasn't very lordly.'
Confess now she said, you regard
ed it purely as-what shall l call it?-
a matter Of duty
I did, Wray admitted.
;,t CHI
obviously. But | felt that | had
been a good deal to blame. l had
allowed Pauline to give herself away.
She had made people talk, and -
: Oh, You tlirted outrageously!'
Unfortunately, she took it in dead
Iy earnest he said.
And now in the same irony of
events, she has forgotten you
Tt looks rather like it,
And your vanity has received
how, you are absolved. You have
done what seemed to be your duty,
you have eased your conscience. Now
the world lies before you
of course, l haven't seen Pauline
yet he suggested.
Take my advice she returned.
BE wise for once Let sleeping dogs
lie, Wray,'
I am going to see her on Thursday
afternoon he said.
Now why? asked Joan quickly.
What is to be gained by that"
We are bound to meet.
Not at all
we both know the same people.
Oh, it's inevitable we should run
across each other Wray insisted
Then wait until chance brings you
into contact, Joan urged.
4 think | shall keep chance out Of
it,, he said Better to get it over in
discreet privacy
Then you fear another
L can't put aside the possibility
You think Pauline may lose her
head a second time?' said Joan.
I shall never forget the first he
muttered.
Although she is aftianced to Sir
Gilbert. Oughtn't that to make a
Joan suggested.
L think | will keep on the safe
side he insisted. 1t is better all
l shall go on Thursday
Joan regarded him obviously.
L wonder she began, and hesi-
tated. L wonder whether you really
are sorry
You told me l didn't look broken
hearted
Perhaps I judged specifically. 1t
may be you are not quite hopeless
yet
You see,' he said in confidential
tone, I'm something like man who
has entered into an engagement-a
little unwillingly, perhaps
All!
A little unwillingly,' he continued,
but who has grown used to the idea
of fulfilling it, and arranged his plans
accordingly. So that it seemed rather
a-well, a bore, to have them knock
ed on the head; just for the moment,
you understand
She looked full into his eyes.
Only bore she asked. Nothing
more than that?'
Nothing whatsoever
Then, honestly-there is nothing to
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