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(Continued from page 79) to be happy. If I thought I could get away with it, I'd take him away from you, but Roger's fine, and honest and clean. He wouldn't be happy, knowing that he'd thrown you and the little boy over. You've kicked him around for ten years now, and he doesn't really know it yet. He blames himself for falling in love with me, not the person he ought to blame — you. I'd never be able to persuade him that it was your fault, either, because these are things only a woman understands. He wouldn't even know why you came here today. He'd think it was because you loved him — not just because you didn't want to lose something that belonged to you." "That's not true!" I cried. "No matter what else you say about me — at least that isn't true! I do love Roger! I wouldn't want to live without him!" There was a long silence, while I heard my own words ringing in my ears and knew I had spoken the truth. I did love Roger. At this moment I loved him more than ever before. She crushed out her cigarette. "Then," she said flatly, "I'm through, I guess. You needn't be afraid of me." "You make me feel very humble," I said. "That's what I mean," she said quickly. "You had everything a wife should have — beauty, brains, charm — except humility. That's all you lacked, and if you have it now, why — why — " she laughed in a choked sort of way — "you're practically perfect." I GOT up to go, and held out my ' hand. "I can't thank you for what you've done," I said. "You shouldn't. It's Roger who should do the thanking." "I won't forget anything you've said, either." "You'd better not," she said with another laugh — this time a more natural one. "Because I'll still be around, and I guess I'll still be loving Roeer. Only I promise you — he won't know it." My mind whirled as I drove home. I could see so many things clearly now, illuminated by the spotlight of Judith Moore's honest mind. Little things I had done to Roger, and big things too. Times I had made him feel how lucky he was to possess such loveliness. The selfish way I insisted upon keeping little Bruce in the background. My refusal to have another child. So many ways I had failed. I felt deadly tired, almost ill as I turned the car into the driveway of our home. A light shone from the living room window, and the smell of burning logs drifted down from the chimney. I stopped the car and ran up the steps, through the front door, paused on the threshold of the room where Roger and Bruce sat before the fire. Suddenly everything seemed real again, and Roger and my baby the most real of all — real, and greatly loved. A sob rose in my throat and I couldn't speak. I could only run to Roger and throw my arms around him, clinging tightly while I cried as if my heart would break. It was the first time he had ever seen me in such a storm of weeping, and he must have been terribly puzzled. 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