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"That was a trick I'm sorry, Max I don't care for anyone else in the

world If you let o I'll want to die"

Then, as he was silent:-"If you'll marry me, I'll be true to you all my life I swear it There

will be nobody else, ever"

The sense, if not the words, of what he had sworn to Sidney that Sunday

afternoon under the trees, on this very road! Swift shame overtook him,

that he should be here, that he had allowed Carlotta to res really stood between them

"I'ed to e?"--almost a whisper

"Yes"

He was ashamed at the way she took the news If she had stormed or wept,

he would have knohat to do But she sat still, not speaking

"You must have expected it, sooner or later"

Still she ht faint, and looked at her

anxiously Her profile, indistinct beside hi She wasa desperate plan If their

escapade becas between Sidney and him She was