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Updated: June 23, 2025
A moment afterward Broomhurst emerged from the darkness into the circle of light outside, and Mrs. Drayton raised her eyes from the pages she was turning to greet him with a smile. "Are your things all right?" "Oh, yes, more or less, thank you. I was a little concerned about a case of books, but it isn't much damaged fortunately. Perhaps I've some you would care to look at?"
"I haven't yet got mine," Broomhurst answered, doggedly, "and I shall never cease to care for it." She smiled a little, with infinite sadness. "Listen, Kathleen," he said. They had both risen, and he stood before her, looking down at her. "I will go now, but in a year's time I shall come back. I will not give you up. You shall love me yet." "Perhaps I don't think so," she answered, wearily.
It is as though it had burned itself out. I will not offer gray ashes to any man." Broomhurst, looking up at her pale, set face, knew that her words were final, and turned his own aside with a groan. "Ah," cried Kathleen, with a little break in her voice, "don't! Go away, and be happy and strong, and all that I loved in you. I am so sorry so sorry to hurt you.
Yes," she cried, feverishly, clasping and unclasping her hands; "Heaven knows I fought it with all my strength, and reasoned with myself, and oh, I did everything, but " Her quick-falling tears made speech difficult. "Kathleen!" Broomhurst urged, desperately, "you couldn't help it, you poor child. You say yourself you struggled against your feelings.
Drayton stared at him with wide, bright eyes as he hastened toward her. "I thought you you are not " she began, and then her teeth began to chatter. "I am so cold!" she said, in a little, weak voice. Broomhurst took her hand and led her over the threshold back into the tent. "Don't be so frightened," he implored; "I came to tell you first.
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