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Updated: May 15, 2025
I could manifest myself as palely, as transiently, as a thought. I could produce the merest necessary flicker, like the shadow of a just-opened leaf, on his trembling, tortured consciousness. And these unrealized perceptions of me he interpreted, as I had known that he would, as his soul's inevitable penance.
He could hear their distant laughter from across the patio. But Paula! He surprised the look on her face, in her eyes. It was a look bent on him, concerning him. Doubt, speculation, almost fear, were in her eyes; and yet, in that swift instant, he had time to note that it was a look deep and searching almost, his quick fancy prompted, the look of one peering into the just-opened book of fate.
The girl looked at her in a little surprise and passed on. She carried a book under her arm, into which were thrust a few just-opened letters. She had scarcely passed the bench when an envelope fell out of the book and lay unnoticed on the road. Julie drew a long breath. She picked up the envelope. It lay in her hand, and the name she had expected to see was written upon it.
The baby had, in reality, grown to be a beauty among babies. All the inflamed red and aged puckers and creases had disappeared; instead of that was the sweetest flush, like that of just-opened rosebuds. Evelyn was a compact little baby, fat, but not overlapping and grossly fat.
She had leaned against his shoulder, appearing to have lost all sense of right and wrong, and, out of her sobbing, gurgled: "She looks so lovely oh dear, she looks so lovely!" Pushing her abruptly from him, Winton peered in through the just-opened door. Gyp was lying extremely still, and very white; her eyes, very large, very dark, were fastened on her baby. Her face wore a kind of wonder.
A perfect figure, though rather short; a dovelike face, whose exquisitely shaped, just-opened lips seemed to be demanding sugar-plums. She could not be more than nineteen. Who was she? A voice said almost in her ear: "How do you do, Mrs. Fiorsen? I am fortunate to see you again at last." She was obliged to turn.
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