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Spring had come to town, gaily and eagerly and Corrinne had been happier. Harry had been more his | old self. The twins were reaching an age when it was fun to dress them in the whitest frocks in town and display them.
 T never thought would be that way" she told Harry one day. 'But I like to have people say we have the best looking children on the street. They are good looking, don't you think? Not beautiful. I hate them beautiful. It means that they may lose their looks just when they need them. But they have something-and even infants need something"
 But the old relationship that had existed for so long between Harry and Corrinne could never be quite recalled. Corrinne won dered about it, over and over again. one morning, brushing her dark hair, before she put on the auda- cious small white hat tilted down to meet one eyebrow and the white polo coat that went with it, she gazed into the mirror.
 Well, young lady," she told | herself. You have a fair amount of beauty, and set of twins that you wouldn't swap for any pair of singles, and money, and a hus- band butyou seem to have lost | the direct contact with him. You | are-outside. And you can't get | back. Why? Sit down and face 1t l squarely."
 She kept on with her self-in- spection. However, think you are thinner. Much thinner. You're | worried
 She went into the bathroom and stood on the scales.
 "You are. You've lost seven pounds in the last two months.
 You are slightly-skinny. And there is lot of difference between
 being slender and skinny. Now | get it back"
 | She went into her own room | again, to get her coat. She re- membered that she had been want
 ing to take ring with loose set | to the jewellers. It was an ame-. l thyst, her birthstone. Harry had | bought it in quaint little London shop.
 Maybe 1t will bring me luck. Maybe it won't" she whispered, ] remembering the dark rain against
 the London windows and the shell
 ter where they had gone until the
 been a tray of rings and he had
 bought this one for her. She found it in the far corner of a
 drawer. There was cracking of
 paper. She pulled it out. A note | from Harry, written just before
 their marriage when they couldn't
 see each other.
 | All nf SI1ddon har head Wof1f down on the dressing table and
 sobs shook her slender shoulders.
 She wondered what had happened, why they had lost each other like this? All the outer signs re- mained. The externals were there.
 But the intimate internal relation-.
 ship in the mind was gone. Some
 times people saw each other sel-s
 domly and retained it. Sometimes those whose lives ran parallel and
 loose, such as hers and Harry's | were doing. lost it.
 She didn't pay any attention to
 the other crumpled paper. Her
 eyes were blinded with tears.
 She made grab for her hand-
 kerchief as she heard steps out
 side. She hadn't expected Harry.
 Anything wrong?" he asked.
 "No-no." The papers were
 scattered on the dressing table.
 T forgot my watch. ran up-
 stiars to get it," he said. Then she
 was aware of silence.
 "I think I understand your tears. I'm in a hurry now. But
 we'll-talk about it later. sus- 1 pected as much!"
 He was gone, banging the door
 behind him.
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