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you to mine.’
‘I think I understand you,’ he replied quietly. ‘I shall not
urge you, for I would rather see you happy than to be hap-
py myself. I see now that you could not be happy with—an
ape.’
There was just the faintest tinge of bitterness in his
voice.
‘Don’t,’ she remonstrated. ‘Don’t say that. You do not un-
derstand.’
But before she could go on a sudden turn in the road
brought them into the midst of a little hamlet.
Before them stood Clayton’s car surrounded by the party
he had brought from the cottage.