dBooks desire

Better go back,'' advised he. He
was preparing hastily to decamp from so perilous a
neighborhood. ``One marriage is about like another,
once you get through the surface. I'm sure you'll be
better off than--back with your stepfather.''
``I've no intention of going to his house,'' she declared.
``Oh, there's your brother. I forgot.''
``So had I forgotten him. I'll not go there, either.
In fact, I've not thought where I'll go.''
``You seem to have done mighty little thinking before
you took a very serious step for a woman.'' He
was uneasily eying the rigid, abstracted little figure a
story up across the way.
``Those things aren't a question of thinking,'' said
she absently. ``I never thought in my life--don't
think I could if I tried. But when the time came I--
I walked out.'' She came back to herself, laughed.
``I don't understand why I'm telling you all this,
especially as you're mad with fright and wild to get away.
Well, good-by, Stanley.''
He lifted his hat. ``Good-by. We'll meet when we
can do so without my getting a scandal on you.


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