BEDFORD, February, 1913.




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"Are you in love with me now?" he asked wistfully (Frontispiece).

She wished that she might die, or, infinitely better, that she had 4
never been born.

She had on her work-apron, but she was not working.

He praised, blamed, patronized, puffed his pipe, and dwelt with
superiority on topics which are best left alone.

She took some coins from her purse and dropped them into the tin cup.

The young man knelt at the door by which he had entered and began to
remove its ancient lock.

Harry, the workman, ... rose to his feet, and turned to Barbara with a
certain quiet eagerness.

But Barbara and Wilmot Allen, well used to even larger and more stately
rooms, chatted ... as two children.

She faced him, still scornful, but white now, and biting her lips.