"
Mrs. Levice looked across at Louis, who stood at the piano, his back half
turned, looking over a book.
"It is very sweet to be wanted by you all now," she said, her voice
trembling slightly; "but I never could leave this house to strangers,
--every room is too full of old associations, and sweet memories of him.
Louis wants me to go down the coast with him soon, stopping for a month or
so at Coronado. Go to your cottage meanwhile by yourselves; even I should
be an intruder. There, Ruth, don't I know? And when we come back, we
shall see. It is all settled, isn't it, Louis?"
He turned around then.
"Yes, I feel that I need a change of scene, and I should like to have her
with me; you do not need her now."
Ruth looked at his careworn face, and said with tender solicitude, --
"You are right, Louis."
And so it was decided.
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