VOLUME II
32. CHAPTER XXXII
(continued)
"No, I suppose not. Well," he added, "I've done what I wished.
I've seen you."
"How little you make of these terrible journeys," she felt the
poverty of her presently replying.
"If you're afraid I'm knocked up--in any such way as that--you
may he at your ease about it." He turned away, this time in
earnest, and no hand-shake, no sign of parting, was exchanged
between them.
At the door he stopped with his hand on the knob. "I shall leave
Florence to-morrow," he said without a quaver.
"I'm delighted to hear it!" she answered passionately. Five
minutes after he had gone out she burst into tears.
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