WHEN it was over and Mr. Forbes and his wife had returned to
the hotel, she put her hands on his shoulders and looked him in the
eyes.
“Tell me,” she said imperiously; “have you really forgiven me? I have
almost been sure at times that you had. I have felt it. But you have
not been quite your old dear self. I want to hear you say again that
you forgive me, and it is the last time that I shall refer to the
subject.”
“Yes,” he said, adjusting a lock that had fallen over her ear, “I have
forgiven you, of course. We are to live the rest of our lives together.
I am not so unwise, I hope, as to nurse offended pride and resentment.”
The colour left her face. She came closer.
“Tell me!” she said, her voice vibrating. “Won’t it ever be quite the
same again? Is that what you mean?”
He took her in his arms and laid his cheek against hers. “Oh, I don’t
know,” he said, “I don’t know.”
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
--Gossipping, on page 13, has been changed to gossiping.
--All other hyphenation and variant/archaic spelling has been retained
as typeset.