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The
culmination
of
this
meeting
was
but
the
prelude
,
as
both
Clyde
and
Roberta
realized
,
to
a
series
of
contacts
and
rejoicings
which
were
to
extend
over
an
indefinite
period
.
They
had
found
love
.
They
were
deliciously
happy
,
whatever
the
problems
attending
its
present
realization
might
be
.
But
the
ways
and
means
of
continuing
with
it
were
a
different
matter
.
For
not
only
was
her
connection
with
the
Newtons
a
bar
to
any
normal
procedure
in
so
far
as
Clyde
was
concerned
,
but
Grace
Marr
herself
offered
a
distinct
and
separate
problem
.
Far
more
than
Roberta
she
was
chained
,
not
only
by
the
defect
of
poor
looks
,
but
by
the
narrow
teachings
and
domestic
training
of
her
early
social
and
religious
life
.
Yet
she
wanted
to
be
gay
and
free
,
too
.
And
in
Roberta
,
who
,
while
gay
and
boastful
at
times
,
was
still
well
within
the
conventions
that
chained
Grace
,
she
imagined
that
she
saw
one
who
was
not
so
bound
.
And
so
it
was
that
she
clung
to
her
closely
and
as
Roberta
saw
it
a
little
wearisomely
.
She
imagined
that
they
could
exchange
ideas
and
jests
and
confidences
in
regard
to
the
love
life
and
their
respective
dreams
without
injury
to
each
other
.
And
to
date
this
was
her
one
solace
in
an
otherwise
gray
world
.
But
Roberta
,
even
before
the
arrival
of
Clyde
in
her
life
,
did
not
want
to
be
so
clung
to
.
It
was
a
bore
.
And
afterwards
she
developed
an
inhibition
in
regard
to
him
where
Grace
was
concerned
.
For
she
not
only
knew
that
Grace
would
resent
this
sudden
desertion
,
but
also
that
she
had
no
desire
to
face
out
within
herself
the
sudden
and
revolutionary
moods
which
now
possessed
her
.
Having
at
once
met
and
loved
him
,
she
was
afraid
to
think
what
,
if
anything
,
she
proposed
to
permit
herself
to
do
in
regard
to
him
.
Were
not
such
contacts
between
the
classes
banned
here
?
She
knew
they
were
.
Hence
she
did
not
care
to
talk
about
him
at
all
.
In
consequence
on
Monday
evening
following
the
Sunday
on
the
lake
when
Grace
had
inquired
most
gayly
and
familiarly
after
Clyde
,
Roberta
had
as
instantly
decided
not
to
appear
nearly
as
interested
in
him
as
Grace
might
already
be
imagining
.
Accordingly
,
she
said
little
other
than
that
he
was
very
pleasant
to
her
and
had
inquired
after
Grace
,
a
remark
which
caused
the
latter
to
eye
her
slyly
and
to
wonder
if
she
were
really
telling
what
had
happened
since
.
"
He
was
so
very
friendly
I
was
beginning
to
think
he
was
struck
on
you
.
"
"
Oh
,
what
nonsense
!
"
Roberta
replied
shrewdly
,
and
a
bit
alarmed
.
"
Why
,
he
would
n't
look
at
me
.
Besides
,
there
's
a
rule
of
the
company
that
does
n't
permit
him
to
,
as
long
as
I
work
there
.
"
This
last
,
more
than
anything
else
,
served
to
allay
Grace
's
notions
in
regard
to
Clyde
and
Roberta
,
for
she
was
of
that
conventional
turn
of
mind
which
would
scarcely
permit
her
to
think
of
any
one
infringing
upon
a
company
rule
.
Nevertheless
Roberta
was
nervous
lest
Grace
should
be
associating
her
and
Clyde
in
her
mind
in
some
clandestine
way
,
and
she
decided
to
be
doubly
cautious
in
regard
to
Clyde
--
to
feign
a
distance
she
did
not
feel
.
But
all
this
was
preliminary
to
troubles
and
strains
and
fears
which
had
nothing
to
do
with
what
had
gone
before
,
but
took
their
rise
from
difficulties
which
sprang
up
immediately
afterwards
.
For
once
she
had
come
to
this
complete
emotional
understanding
with
Clyde
,
she
saw
no
way
of
meeting
him
except
in
this
very
clandestine
way
and
that
so
very
rarely
and
uncertainly
that
she
could
not
say
when
there
was
likely
to
be
another
meeting
.
"
You
see
,
it
's
this
way
,
"
she
explained
to
Clyde
when
,
a
few
evenings
later
,
she
had
managed
to
steal
out
for
an
hour
and
they
walked
from
the
region
at
the
end
of
Taylor
Street
down
to
the
Mohawk
,
where
were
some
open
fields
and
a
low
bank
rising
above
the
pleasant
river
.
"
The
Newtons
never
go
any
place
much
without
inviting
me
.
And
even
if
they
did
n't
,
Grace
'd
never
go
unless
I
went
along
.
It
's
just
because
we
were
together
so
much
in
Trippetts
Mills
that
she
feels
that
way
,
as
though
I
were
a
part
of
the
family
.
But
now
it
's
different
,
and
yet
I
do
n't
see
how
I
am
going
to
get
out
of
it
so
soon
.
I
do
n't
know
where
to
say
I
'm
going
or
whom
I
am
going
with
.
"
"
I
know
that
,
honey
,
"
he
replied
softly
and
sweetly
.
"
That
's
all
true
enough
.
