Among the other rules of conduct that she imposed upon herself
was not to think of Latimer. At least, not during the waking
hours. Should she, as it sometimes happened, dream of him--should
she imagine they were again seated among the pines, riding across
the downs, or racing at fifty miles an hour through country
roads, with the stone fences flying past, with the wind and the
sun in their eyes, and in their hearts happiness and
content--that would not be breaking her rule. If she dreamed of
him, she could not be held responsible. She could only be
grateful.

And then, just as she had banished him entirely from her mind, he
came East. Not as once he had planned to come, only to see her,
but with a blare of trumpets, at the command of many citizens, as
the guest of three cities. He was to speak at public meetings, to
confer with party leaders, to carry the war into the enemy's
country. He was due to speak in Boston at Faneuil Hall on the
first of May, and that same night to leave for the West, and
three days before his coming Helen fled from the city. He had
spoken his message to Philadelphia, he had spoken to New York,
and for a week the papers had spoken only of him. And for that
week, from the sight of his printed name, from sketches of him
exhorting cheering mobs, from snap-shots of him on rear platforms
leaning forward to grasp eager hands, Helen had shut her eyes.
And that during the time he was actually in Boston she might
spare herself further and more direct attacks upon her feelings
she escaped to Fair Harbor, there to remain until, on the first
of May at midnight, he again would pass out of her life, maybe
forever. No one saw in her going any significance. Spring had