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would have killed myself,'' he said without any affectation. "It would have been intolerable."
"Oh, Harvey," said Judith, "if this has taught you a lesson, I can be glad it happened."
Lillian interrupted them. But Harvey did not rise. "She's down-stairs," said Lillian, "smoking! I tol' her you all'd be right down."
Judith was a little doubtful whether Miss Cameron had understood Lillian's jargon.
"You had better see her," Judith told Harvey. "I'll be down as soon as I can slip into another dress."
"I tole her," Lillian's protest was a shrill pronouncement.
"All right, Lillian." Judith instinctively took the tone you take with a child. In truth, that was all Lillian seemed — a great, mple and adoring creature. "You go prepare the tea. Nicely, now. As I explained this morning. Remember !"
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Judith sank to the bench gratefully. The room reeled so.
There was a fresh tube ase-paint in the dressing-table drawer.
Her fingers picked it up without actually feeling it.
"I'll fix that bum]) in a minute, Lillian," she said, "Watch me."
The bell rang. Everyone
"Tell her I will be right down." Judith instructed Lillian, who left the room with a grumble of disapproving complaint.
Harvey stood behind Judith as she manipulated the grease-paint with unsteady fingers dial refused to hurry.
"Will you speak to me?" Harvey asked her, "or would you rather I went away?" Judith turned to him.
"Dearest," she said, "yon did nothing." there was a certain emphasis in her that saved diem from being enigmatic. "When you have been drinking, you are not you. You seem a luddated. Mi eyes were frightened when he came over to her and knelt beside her slim knees I lis contrition seemed to Itterly devitalized him. The spirit that dominated him wa> gone.
"My God," he groaned, "1 thought yotl were dead. 50 white and you lay so still."
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and knelt beside her slim knees. And when Lillian
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