I lay back on the sofa looking at her with a kind of pity.

"Then why not end it?" I said--"Or why not let me go away? It is I who

have displeased you somehow, and I assure you I'm very sorry! You and

Mr. Harland have both been most kind to me--I've been your guest for

nearly a fortnight,--that's quite sufficient holiday for me--put me

ashore anywhere you like and I'll go home and get myself out of your

way. Will that be any comfort to you?"

"I don't know that it will," she said, with a short, querulous

sigh--"Things have happened so strangely." She paused, looking at

me--"Yes--you have the face of that woman I saw in my dream!--and you

have always reminded me of--"

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