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To
salve
her
own
conscience
more
than
anything
else
,
she
at
once
wrote
her
mother
and
her
sister
a
very
plausible
version
of
why
she
had
been
compelled
to
leave
the
Newtons
.
Grace
had
grown
too
possessive
,
domineering
and
selfish
.
It
had
become
unendurable
.
However
,
her
mother
need
not
worry
.
She
was
satisfactorily
placed
.
She
had
a
room
to
herself
and
could
now
entertain
Tom
and
Emily
or
her
mother
or
Agnes
,
in
case
they
should
ever
visit
her
here
.
And
she
would
be
able
to
introduce
them
to
the
Gilpins
whom
she
proceeded
to
describe
.
Nevertheless
,
her
underlying
thought
in
connection
with
all
this
,
in
so
far
as
Clyde
and
his
great
passion
for
her
was
concerned
--
and
hers
for
him
--
was
that
she
was
indeed
trifling
with
fire
and
perhaps
social
disgrace
into
the
bargain
For
,
although
consciously
at
this
time
she
was
scarcely
willing
to
face
the
fact
that
this
room
--
its
geometric
position
in
relation
to
the
rest
of
the
house
--
had
been
of
the
greatest
import
to
her
at
the
time
she
first
saw
it
,
yet
subconsciously
she
knew
it
well
enough
.
The
course
she
was
pursuing
was
dangerous
--
that
she
knew
.
And
yet
how
,
as
she
now
so
often
asked
herself
at
moments
when
she
was
confronted
by
some
desire
which
ran
counter
to
her
sense
of
practicability
and
social
morality
,
was
she
to
do
?
However
,
as
both
Roberta
and
Clyde
soon
found
,
after
several
weeks
in
which
they
met
here
and
there
,
such
spots
as
could
be
conveniently
reached
by
interurban
lines
,
there
were
still
drawbacks
and
the
principal
of
these
related
to
the
attitude
of
both
Roberta
and
Clyde
in
regard
to
this
room
,
and
what
,
if
any
,
use
of
it
was
to
be
made
by
them
jointly
.
For
in
spite
of
the
fact
that
thus
far
Clyde
had
never
openly
agreed
with
himself
that
his
intentions
in
relation
to
Roberta
were
in
any
way
different
to
those
normally
entertained
by
any
youth
toward
any
girl
for
whom
he
had
a
conventional
social
regard
,
still
,
now
that
she
had
moved
into
this
room
,
there
was
that
ineradicable
and
possibly
censurable
,
yet
very
human
and
almost
unescapable
,
desire
for
something
more
--
the
possibility
of
greater
and
greater
intimacy
with
and
control
of
Roberta
and
her
thoughts
and
actions
in
everything
so
that
in
the
end
she
would
be
entirely
his
.
But
how
HIS
?
By
way
of
marriage
and
the
ordinary
conventional
and
durable
existence
which
thereafter
must
ordinarily
ensue
?
He
had
never
said
so
to
himself
thus
far
.
For
in
flirting
with
her
or
any
girl
of
a
lesser
social
position
than
that
of
the
Griffiths
here
(
Sondra
Finchley
,
Bertine
Cranston
,
for
instance
)
he
would
not
--
and
that
largely
due
to
the
attitude
of
his
newly-found
relatives
,
their
very
high
position
in
this
city
--
have
deemed
marriage
advisable
.
And
what
would
they
think
if
they
should
come
to
know
?
For
socially
,
as
he
saw
himself
now
,
if
not
before
coming
here
,
he
was
supposed
to
be
above
the
type
of
Roberta
and
should
of
course
profit
by
that
notion
.
Besides
there
were
all
those
that
knew
him
here
,
at
least
to
speak
to
.
On
the
other
hand
,
because
of
the
very
marked
pull
that
her
temperament
had
for
him
,
he
had
not
been
able
to
say
for
the
time
being
that
she
was
not
worthy
of
him
or
that
he
might
not
be
happy
in
case
it
were
possible
or
advisable
for
him
to
marry
her
.
And
there
was
another
thing
now
that
tended
to
complicate
matters
.
And
that
was
that
fall
with
its
chilling
winds
and
frosty
nights
was
drawing
near
.
Already
it
was
near
October
first
and
most
of
those
out-of-door
resorts
which
,
up
to
the
middle
of
September
at
least
,
had
provided
diversion
,
and
that
at
a
fairly
safe
distance
from
Lycurgus
,
were
already
closed
for
the
season
.
And
dancing
,
except
in
the
halls
of
the
near-by
cities
and
which
,
because
of
a
mood
of
hers
in
regard
to
them
,
were
unacceptable
,
was
also
for
the
time
being
done
away
with
.
As
for
the
churches
,
moving
pictures
,
and
restaurants
of
Lycurgus
,
how
under
the
circumstances
,
owing
to
Clyde
's
position
here
,
could
they
be
seen
in
them
?
They
could
not
,
as
both
reasoned
between
them
.
And
so
now
,
while
her
movements
were
unrestrained
,
there
was
no
place
to
go
unless
by
some
readjustment
of
their
relations
he
might
be
permitted
to
call
on
her
at
the
Gilpins
'
.
But
that
,
as
he
knew
,
she
would
not
think
of
and
,
at
first
,
neither
had
he
the
courage
to
suggest
it
.
However
they
were
at
a
street-end
one
early
October
night
about
six
weeks
after
she
had
moved
to
her
new
room
.
The
stars
were
sharp
.
The
air
cool
.
The
leaves
were
beginning
to
turn
.
Roberta
had
returned
to
a
three-quarter
green-and-cream-striped
winter
coat
that
she
wore
at
this
season
of
the
year
.
Her
hat
was
brown
,
trimmed
with
brown
leather
and
of
a
design
that
became
her
.
There
had
been
kisses
over
and
over
--
that
same
fever
that
had
been
dominating
them
continuously
since
first
they
met
--
only
more
pronounced
if
anything
.
"
It
's
getting
cold
,
is
n't
it
?
"
It
was
Clyde
who
spoke
.
And
it
was
eleven
o'clock
and
chill
.
"
Yes
,
I
should
say
it
is
.
I
'll
soon
have
to
get
a
heavier
coat
.
"
"
I
do
n't
see
how
we
are
to
do
from
now
on
,
do
you
?
There
's
no
place
to
go
any
more
much
,
and
it
wo
n't
be
very
pleasant
walking
the
streets
this
way
every
night
.
You
do
n't
suppose
we
could
fix
it
so
I
could
call
on
you
at
the
Gilpins
'
once
in
a
while
,
do
you
?
It
is
n't
the
same
there
now
as
it
was
at
the
Newtons
'
.
"
