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 haps we shall--a little later-when you get some of these highfalut-
 ing ideas out of your head and come to your senses"
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 how to tell you how sorry I am, Anne said in a distressed tone, as her guest moved majestically past her towards the door.
 "A lot of good that does! But we'll see, we'll see. You may be glad to come crawling back to Leon cn your hands and knees yet!'
 Nothing, I'm sure, could please him better" Anne commented. You must let me go part of the way back with you, though, Auntia- don't like to think of your going through the woods alone"
 T came alone; dare say can go back the same way-unless-" On the lowest step, she turned and faced her niece again. Anne, you said last night that at least I've always been honest with you. I'm not going to pretend that this is not a heavy blow for me-this morning when I knew first that you had gone"
 She paused to choose her words, and Anne, seeing her face in the strong afternoon sunlight, realized that it looked haggard from worry
 10 years older almost. She took an involuntary step nearer.
 Tt was hard" Mrs. Wilmot went On slowly, ito see the hopes and ambitions of a lifetime shattered by the single rash act of a thoughtless, selfish girl, but-after all, am an old woman It doesn't matter so much; no doubt I shall get on somehow-I don't require @ great deal.
 But for you-ycur whole future is at stake. In few weeks or at most a few months, this mad fancy will pass. Love lasts-maybe for the length of the honeymoon, may be not so long; marriage is mat ter of a lifetime" She raised her face to Annes. For the first time in their long relationship she was pleading instead of command ing. Go get your hat, my dear, and come on back with me to Leon like a good sensible girl"
 Anne turned very white. Her half lifted hand fell to her side. You must know how hard you are making it for me, Aunt Emily" she said in very low tone. You don't understand-I guess you can't" she added slowly, "in the first place I love the man I have married with all my heart-I've been trying to make you understand that ever since you came. Tn the second place, the thought of Leon after what has happened-is so un- thinkable, so repulsive-"
 She broke off despairingly at sight of the change which had come abruptly over her aunt's face. The grandmotherly mouth was com pressed into a hard, narrow line. The keen little dark eyes which moment before had looked almost soft and appealing, gleamed and sparkled like cut steel
 She turned sharply and started picking her way cautiously down the steep little path. Well, we shall see. we shall see" Her last words came back harshly to Anne, who stood miserably watching her from the front porch. A few mo- ments later, she was lost to view among the trees.
 After while, Anne turned and went dejectedly back into the house All the joy had gone out of the day. She forgot Delphine and the unfinished house-cleaning She had sold her right to happiness long ago, she told herself-long before she had any standards by which to gauge it's worth. She was in re- ality, as she had told Glenn, worth less. Perhaps she would only bring trouble and sorrow on him too-she could stand anything but hat
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