Bingham."
"Did you have curious dreams?"
"Yes, I did," she answered, looking straight before her.
He turned a shade paler. Then it was true!
"Beatrice," he said in a half whisper, "what do they mean?"
"As much as anything else, or as little," she answered.
"What are people to do who dream such dreams?" he said again, in the
same constrained voice.
"Forget them," she whispered.
"And if they come back?"
"Forget them again."
"And if they will not be forgotten?"
She turned and looked him full in the eyes.
"Die of them," she said; "then they will be forgotten, or----"
"Or what, Beatrice?"
"Here is the station," said Beatrice, "and Betty is quarrelling with the
flyman."
Five minutes more and Geoffrey was gone.
CHAPTER XVI
THE FLAT NEAR THE EDGWARE ROAD
Geoffrey's journey to town was not altogether a cheerful one. To begin
with, Effie wept copiously at parting with her beloved "auntie," as she
called Beatrice, and would not be comforted. The prospect of rejoining
her mother and the voluble Anne had no charms for Effie. They all three
got on best apart.
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