Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-06
American Sunday Monthly Magazine Section
1905; Guinevere'S Lover

when they should come in sight from aiar.
| And when we turned and looked at each
other.
oh, my darling -" Was all Hugh said.
! And -" At last cried.
! Then our sentences came quickly: qucs-
tions from him and answers from me.
Was / wcll?-Did | love him,-Had |
missed him,-Was | glad TO STE him,-and
a dozen more tender things; and then, salts
fed with my replies, he burst forth with his
tale of the impossible summer he had passed;
the daily fighting down his mad longing to
come to me; and how twice 1t had mastered
him. and he had returned to Allnton Ore
mont. and there conquered It and gone back
again without seeing me. but that at last
his will was at an end, since tate made II
imperative that he should return TO his home.
II thought loved YOU as much as it was
possible, in London, Guincycrc, he SAID
pas-ionatcly, but | know that each day
since We parted YOU have grown more dear.
And YOU, also Hugh, ! whispered
and down ON the stone wall he pressed my
hand.
/ lie Is looking bronzcd and well, my Be
loved One, and more attractive to me than
ever, and his voice fills me with JOY and con
tcntmcnt: and when meet his eyes, thrill,
and-Oh | love him, ! love him with the
essence of my life
We had not time for anything more for
the group of guns came i'm view, and We
walked forward to meet them, returning
en- maSSc Tor lunch. But knew that Lctitia
would arrange that ] should have a chance
OF talking during the afternoon, somehow;
and She did.
stood with Humphrey, a, is his wish
alvaN, on the rare occasions ! have ever
been out shooting with him, because We
have not been in England for 50 long; but
Just before the two last drives, one of the
ladies, Mrs. Hepburn, said she was cold and
tired and wished to go back and my huS-
band, put out at any disturbance of his
plans, asked Hugh, who knows all this Coun-
try, To show Us the way home, and Lctitia
said She would come too, leaving Mrs Mon
roe to stay with the guns. lctilla had stood
with Hugh all the time, creating quite the
impression that he had come there only TO
see her 50 now We four started across the
/ fields toward wood, but before we got
there We had, by her skiIful manuuyring,
divided into TWO and two.
We can't go wrong right through these
trees, If We stick to the path, can We, Hugh,
she asked. Mrs. Hepburn and | are 50
cold We want to run on for little and get
our circulation up. but Guincycrc hates
walking fast"
He assured her they would be perfectly
safe, and thus, after few seconds, We were
al last left alone.
The shadow, in the wood made it quite
dusky and the sky was heavy with clouds
The very instant the pair i'm front were out
of sight Hugh stretched out his hands and
took my hands
"Oh the hunger of it," he said, very low,
as if the words were wrcnChcd from his heart;
and we could neither of us speak Cohcrcntv
We were both so moved.
And to think that when we have come
through this wood and crossed few fields,
We shall have TO play the comedy again,
and ! may not even touch your finger,
oh, GuinCvcrc. It l. torture, Is It note
The mighty workings OF passion had car
ricd us both on so far from that night in
Hugh'~ Sitting-room when he had told me
he would Try To keep his love within the
bounds that could never bring me sorrow
But ! could not rcproaCh him with that;
We had gone together along the same road
Yes, 1t Is anguish, agreed. But now
that | have seen YOU, / can bear it better
y the days went on, after the ache began
again, the longing for YOU to come was al
most more than ! could bear"
My darling.
Hugh, We must not look ahcad-thc
situation Is too impossible Let us be happy
again now for this short while, and never
live in anything but the actual moment"