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She only said: "You are very kind," and then he lifted his hat, and left her at Mrs. Stutt's gate. He deliberately and literally believed, as he walked down the street directly to Green's that he was the happiest man in the world. For that matter, it is not impossible that he was.
And, after all, why not he as well as any other man? It was absurd to suppose that Winifred could ever be in love with any man, as a man would be with her. It occurred to Will that the thing to do was natural enough, after all not to ask Winifred's love, but to offer her his. And he walked down to Mrs. Stutt's to do it, one August evening, a little before school opened after vacation.
It was afternoon of the next day when he stood at Mrs. Stutt's door again. Mrs. Stutt looked at him with the embarrassment of conscious pity as she admitted him. People had been looking at him all day, on the street and in the office, with the same embarrassment and pity.
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