Out of the Past — page 79: what you’re looking at

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76 Out of the Past. over him later, when he had found emptiness where she had stood grieving. Consciousness of that hour had also risen to Rose. But they looked at each other gravely as though over an agreement signed and sealed, and both tried to forget. Dropping his eyes, he said: “We have missed you at Mme. Blanc’s. The life of the house went with you and we feel and behave like resusci- tated mummies. Babette threatens to leave if we cannot persuade you to us again. We will be very good if you will return.” “You were too good—that was why——” “Why you left? I do not understand.” “Tam not good myself—always,”’ she admitted. Perhaps it was foolish, but at this small admission Rob- ert’s heart bounded over the agreement, signed and sealed. “Did you go because I worried you?” “T am afraid I did.” “And you disliked me?” ‘“N-no. Oh, please . “Please let you alone?” She nodded with embarrass- ment, and Robert questioned her eyes, the question dan- gerous through which souls come suddenly upon each other and quiver in the radiance for one long moment. She first drew her glance away with a sense of having dipped in a sea of measureless delight, and after that CONMMICOOOKS,.(e