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And
she
must
now
find
some
way
to
protect
herself
and
him
--
move
to
another
room
.
But
that
in
this
instance
required
almost
more
courage
and
decision
than
she
could
muster
.
The
anomalous
and
unprotected
nature
of
a
room
where
one
was
not
known
.
The
look
of
it
.
Subsequent
explanation
to
her
mother
and
sister
maybe
.
Yet
to
remain
here
after
this
was
all
but
impossible
,
too
,
for
the
attitude
of
Grace
as
well
as
the
Newtons
--
particularly
Mrs.
Newton
,
Grace
's
sister
--
was
that
of
the
early
Puritans
or
Friends
who
had
caught
a
"
brother
"
or
"
sister
"
in
a
great
sin
.
She
was
dancing
--
and
secretly
!
There
was
the
presence
of
that
young
man
not
quite
adequately
explained
by
her
trip
home
,
to
say
nothing
of
her
presence
at
Starlight
Park
.
Besides
,
in
Roberta
's
mind
was
the
thought
that
under
such
definite
espionage
as
must
now
follow
,
to
say
nothing
of
the
unhappy
and
dictatorial
attitude
of
Grace
,
she
would
have
small
chance
to
be
with
Clyde
as
much
as
she
now
most
intensely
desired
.
And
accordingly
,
after
two
days
of
unhappy
thought
and
then
a
conference
with
Clyde
who
was
all
for
her
immediate
independence
in
a
new
room
where
she
would
not
be
known
or
spied
upon
,
she
proceeded
to
take
an
hour
or
two
off
;
and
having
fixed
upon
the
southeast
section
of
the
city
as
one
most
likely
to
be
free
from
contact
with
either
the
Newtons
or
those
whom
thus
far
she
had
encountered
at
the
Newtons
'
,
she
inquired
there
,
and
after
little
more
than
an
hour
's
search
found
one
place
which
pleased
her
.
This
was
in
an
old
brick
house
in
Elm
Street
occupied
by
an
upholsterer
and
his
wife
and
two
daughters
,
one
a
local
milliner
and
another
still
in
school
.
The
room
offered
was
on
the
ground
floor
to
the
right
of
a
small
front
porch
and
overlooking
the
street
.
A
door
off
this
same
porch
gave
into
a
living
room
which
separated
this
room
from
the
other
parts
of
the
house
and
permitted
ingress
and
egress
without
contact
with
any
other
portion
of
the
house
.
And
since
she
was
still
moved
to
meet
Clyde
clandestinely
this
as
she
now
saw
was
important
.
Besides
,
as
she
gathered
from
her
one
conversation
with
Mrs.
Gilpin
,
the
mother
of
this
family
,
the
character
of
this
home
was
neither
so
strict
nor
inquisitive
as
that
of
the
Newtons
.
Mrs.
Gilpin
was
large
,
passive
,
cleanly
,
not
so
very
alert
and
about
fifty
.
She
informed
Roberta
that
as
a
rule
she
did
n't
care
to
take
boarders
or
roomers
at
all
,
since
the
family
had
sufficient
means
to
go
on
.
However
,
since
the
family
scarcely
ever
used
the
front
room
,
which
was
rather
set
off
from
the
remainder
of
the
house
,
and
since
her
husband
did
not
object
,
she
had
made
up
her
mind
to
rent
it
.
And
again
she
preferred
some
one
who
worked
like
Roberta
--
a
girl
,
not
a
man
--
and
one
who
would
be
glad
to
have
her
breakfast
and
dinner
along
with
her
family
.
Since
she
asked
no
questions
as
to
her
family
or
connections
,
merely
looking
at
her
interestedly
and
seeming
to
be
favorably
impressed
by
her
appearance
,
Roberta
gathered
that
here
were
no
such
standards
as
prevailed
at
the
Newtons
.
And
yet
what
qualms
in
connection
with
the
thought
of
moving
thus
.
For
about
this
entire
clandestine
procedure
there
hung
,
as
she
saw
it
,
a
sense
of
something
untoward
and
even
sinful
,
and
then
on
top
of
it
all
,
quarreling
and
then
breaking
with
Grace
Marr
,
her
one
girl
friend
here
thus
far
,
and
the
Newtons
on
account
of
it
,
when
,
as
she
well
knew
,
it
was
entirely
due
to
Grace
that
she
was
here
at
all
.
Supposing
her
parents
or
her
sister
in
Homer
should
hear
about
this
through
some
one
whom
Grace
knew
and
think
strangely
of
her
going
off
by
herself
in
Lycurgus
in
this
way
?
Was
it
right
?
Was
it
possible
that
she
could
do
things
like
this
--
and
so
soon
after
her
coming
here
?
She
was
beginning
to
feel
as
though
her
hitherto
impeccable
standards
were
crumbling
.
And
yet
there
was
Clyde
now
.
Could
she
give
him
up
?
After
many
emotional
aches
she
decided
that
she
could
not
.
And
accordingly
after
paying
a
deposit
and
arranging
to
occupy
the
room
within
the
next
few
days
,
she
returned
to
her
work
and
after
dinner
the
same
evening
announced
to
Mrs.
Newton
that
she
was
going
to
move
.
Her
premeditated
explanation
was
that
recently
she
had
been
thinking
of
having
her
younger
brother
and
sister
come
and
live
with
her
and
since
one
or
both
were
likely
to
come
soon
,
she
thought
it
best
to
prepare
for
them
.
And
the
Newtons
,
as
well
as
Grace
,
feeling
that
this
was
all
due
to
the
new
connections
which
Roberta
had
recently
been
making
and
which
were
tending
to
alienate
her
from
Grace
,
were
now
content
to
see
her
go
.
Plainly
she
was
beginning
to
indulge
in
a
type
of
adventure
of
which
they
could
not
approve
.
Also
it
was
plain
that
she
was
not
going
to
prove
as
useful
to
Grace
as
they
had
at
first
imagined
.
Possibly
she
knew
what
she
was
doing
.
But
more
likely
she
was
being
led
astray
by
notions
of
a
good
time
not
consistent
with
the
reserved
life
led
by
her
at
Trippetts
Mills
.
And
Roberta
herself
,
once
having
made
this
move
and
settled
herself
in
this
new
atmosphere
(
apart
from
the
fact
that
it
gave
her
much
greater
freedom
in
connection
with
Clyde
)
was
dubious
as
to
her
present
course
.
Perhaps
--
perhaps
--
she
had
moved
hastily
and
in
anger
and
might
be
sorry
.
Still
she
had
done
it
now
,
and
it
could
not
be
helped
.
So
she
proposed
to
try
it
for
a
while
.
