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It

seemed

,

for

some

reason

,

to

give

Susan

satisfaction

.

"

Good

,

"

she

remarked

approvingly

,

and

we

passed

to

other

subjects

.

Because

of

her

,

I

tried

to

skirt

the

larger

towns

,

but

it

was

impossible

to

avoid

many

unpleasant

sights

in

the

country

.

After

a

while

I

gave

up

pretending

that

they

did

not

exist

.

Susan

regarded

them

with

the

same

detached

interest

as

she

gave

to

the

normal

scenery

.

They

did

not

alarm

her

,

though

they

puzzled

her

and

prompted

questions

.

Reflecting

that

the

world

in

which

she

was

going

to

grow

up

would

have

little

use

for

the

overniceties

and

euphemisms

that

I

had

learned

as

a

child

,

I

did

my

best

to

treat

the

various

horrors

and

curiosities

in

the

same

objective

fashion

.

That

was

really

very

good

for

me

too

.

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By

midday

the

clouds

had

gathered

and

rain

began

once

more

.

When

,

at

five

o

’

clock

,

we

pulled

up

on

the

road

just

short

of

Pulborough

,

it

was

still

pouring

hard

.

"

Where

do

we

go

now

?

"

inquired

Susan

.

"

That

,

"

I

acknowledged

,

"

is

just

the

trouble

.

It

’

s

somewhere

over

there

.

"

I

waved

my

arm

toward

the

misty

line

of

the

Downs

,

to

the

south

.

I

had

been

trying

hard

to

recall

just

what

else

Josella

had

said

of

the

place

,

but

I

could

remember

no

more

than

that

the

house

stood

on

the

north

side

of

the

hills

,

and

I

had

the

impression

that

it

faced

across

the

low

,

marshy

country

that

separated

them

from

Pulborough

.

Now

that

I

had

come

so

far

,

it

seemed

a

pretty

vague

instruction

:

the

Downs

stretched

away

for

miles

to

the

east

and

to

the

west

.

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"

Maybe

the

first

thing

to

do

is

to

see

if

we

can

find

any

smoke

across

there

,

"

I

suggested

.

"

It

’

s

awfully

difficult

to

see

anything

at

all

in

the

rain

,

"

Susan

said

practically

,

and

quite

rightly

.

Half

an

hour

later

the

rain

obligingly

held

off

for

a

while

.

We

left

the

truck

and

sat

on

a

wall

side

by

side

.

We

studied

the

lower

slopes

of

the

hills

carefully

for

some

time

,

but

neither

Susan

’

s

sharp

eyes

nor

my

field

glasses

could

discover

any

trace

of

smoke

or

signs

of

activity

.

Then

it

started

to

rain

again

.

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