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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Just hark to the wind and the rain, Billikins!" she whispered, as it swirled on. "Did you ever hear anything so awful? It's as if as if God were very furious about something. Do you think He is, dear? Do you?" She pressed close to him with white, pleading face upraised. "Do you believe in God, Billikins? Honestly now!"
His life was passing swiftly, swiftly, like the sands running out of a glass. He had lost her already, and the world had sunk away, away, with all warmth and light and love. Yet out of the darkness all suddenly there came a voice, eager, passionate, persistent. "I am here, Billikins! I am here! Come back to me, darling! Come back!"
You shall have a lesson to-night when we get back from the Burtons' dinner. I'm real sorry you were bored, Billikins. You shan't be again." That was her attitude always, half-maternal, half-quizzing, as if something about him amused her; yet always anxious to please him, always ready to set his wishes before her own, so long as he did not attempt to treat her seriously.
He carried her to bed, and laid her down, but she would not let him go immediately. She yet clung about his neck, hiding her face against it. He held her closely. "Good-night, little pal little sweetheart," he said. Her arms tightened. "Billikins!" she said. He waited. "What is it, dear?" She became a little agitated. He could feel her lips moving, but they said no audible word.
She knelt down before him with small hands tightly clasped. "I'm going to say something dreadful, Billikins," she said. He looked at her for a moment or two in silence. Then, "I know what you are going to say," he said. She shook her head. "Oh, no, you don't, darling. It's something that'll make you frightfully angry." The faintest gleam of a smile crossed Merryon's face. "With you?" he said.
"Don't, Billikins! Please please, Billikins!" she begged, incoherently. "You promised you promised " "What did I promise?" he said. "That you wouldn't wouldn't" she spoke breathlessly, for his hold was tightening upon her "gobble me up," she ended, with a painful little laugh. "I see." Merryon's voice was deep and low. "And you meantime are at liberty to play any fool game you like with me.
"It isn't so very much," said Henrietta, "only ten dollars a month more, but it will be a lot for us, and it means a great big lot to me, because it makes me feel that I'm succeeding. What is it, Billikins? Do you want to come up? And you've brought babykins, haven't you? Come on, then, both of you."
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