quot;I only did w ;

    quot;Like Eve,quot; he said.

    telepive. Let it ring. But my lover lifted me up and set me on my feet; I must ans. t h.

    quot;tyard. Immediately.quot;

    My lover kissed me, ook my  of courage, I t of my mothen I saw a muscle in my lovers face quiver.

    quot;s!quot; he said.

    I cast one last, desperate glance from t a vertiginous speed along tlocks. A rider, s tucked up around  so s, a crazy, magnificent horsewoman in widows weeds.

    As telephone rang again.

    quot;Am I to  all morning?quot;

    Every moment, my mother drew nearer.

    quot;Soo late,quot;Jean-Yves said and yet  restrain a note of , t must be so, yet it mig be so.

    transigent call.

    quot;So o fetc Cecilia? You ing t;

    So I must go to tyard rousers and t from turnbull and Asser, beside ting block, -grandfated to ttle corporal, in token of surrender to t  November morning, sal.

    ;Let t does even a youtted as you truly blind to ook my ring? Give it me back, w;

    t from my finger and, even in t dolorous place, my   lovingly and lodged it on tip of  her.

    quot;It ; ;to ter, utilising a less exalted instrument tion, for do not fear t in deat;

    Slo before tion, time it gave to descend. . .

    quot;Dont loiter, girl! Do you tite for t serving it? No; I s, more cruel. . . Run to me, run! I e corpse in my display of fles;

    brigs from t, but still I lingered altly raised, noo flag. If s  umbled