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But he wasn't bad to me or to H lne or Nelton or Old William, and we're the ones that knew him best." For a time they were silent, then Natalie said: "Lew, you're older than you ever were before. Is it just losing your dad?" Lewis shook his head. "No," he said, "it wasn't that. I finished growing up just after I got back to London. I'm not the only thing that has grown.
Through its slender gothic panes one saw a walled lawn and a single elm. Beside the window and half turned toward it, so that the light fell across her face, sat the woman of the portrait. "How do!" she cried gaily to Leighton, and held out her hand. She did not rise. "H lne," said Leighton, "your room's so cursedly feminine that it's like an assault for a man to enter it."
Leighton was not sobbing. He was simply quivering from head to toe quivering so that he could not speak. His teeth chattered. H lne smoothed his brow and his crisp hair, shot with gray. She soothed him. "H lne," he said at last, "he's my boy." "Glen," said H lne, "if you love him love him like that, she can't break him up. Don't be frightened. Go and find him. Send him to me."
"So you've got six months' grace," said H lne, when Leighton had told her how things stood. "Glen, do you remember this: 'All erotic love is a progression. There is no amatory affection that can stand the strain of a separation of six months in conjunction with six thousand miles. All the standard tales of grande passion and absence are "
Sometime perhaps H lne will talk to you. If she does, you'll see in her eyes what I'm trying to tell you in words." "And Folly?" said Lewis. His own pause astounded him. "Yes, Folly," said Leighton. "Well, that's what Folly lacks the key, the rock, the foundation. The only person Folly has a right to marry is herself, and she knows it." Lewis sighed with disappointment. He had been so sure.
Violet Materlin, accustomed as they were to find youths of his age stupidly callow or at best, in their innocence, mildly exciting. Leighton, seated at H lne's left, watched Lewis curiously. "They've taken to him," said H lne. "Yes," said Leighton. "Nothing wins a woman of the world so quickly as the unexpected.
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