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"
What
were
they
?
"
asked
Glenn
interestedly
,
and
,
after
he
had
learned
,
merely
commented
:
"
Oh
,
those
.
Well
,
they
would
n't
be
likely
to
be
of
any
real
service
to
you
,
if
you
were
pregnant
.
But
I
still
suggest
that
you
wait
,
and
if
you
find
you
pass
your
second
period
,
then
it
will
be
time
enough
to
act
,
although
I
earnestly
advise
you
,
even
then
,
to
do
nothing
if
you
can
help
it
,
because
I
consider
it
wrong
to
interfere
with
nature
in
this
way
.
It
would
be
much
better
,
if
you
would
arrange
to
have
the
child
and
take
care
of
it
.
Then
you
would
n't
have
the
additional
sin
of
destroying
a
life
upon
your
conscience
.
"
He
was
very
grave
and
felt
very
righteous
as
he
said
this
.
But
Roberta
,
faced
by
terrors
which
he
did
not
appear
to
be
able
to
grasp
,
merely
exclaimed
,
and
as
dramatically
as
before
:
"
But
I
ca
n't
do
that
,
doctor
,
I
tell
you
!
I
ca
n't
.
I
ca
n't
!
You
do
n't
understand
.
Oh
,
I
do
n't
know
what
I
shall
do
unless
I
find
some
way
out
of
this
.
I
do
n't
!
I
do
n't
!
I
do
n't
!
"
She
shook
her
head
and
clenched
her
fingers
and
rocked
to
and
fro
while
Glenn
,
impressed
by
her
own
terrors
,
the
pity
of
the
folly
which
,
as
he
saw
it
,
had
led
her
to
this
dreadful
pass
,
yet
professionally
alienated
by
a
type
of
case
that
spelled
nothing
but
difficulty
for
him
stood
determinedly
before
her
and
added
:
"
As
I
told
you
before
,
Miss
--
"
(
he
paused
)
"
Howard
,
if
that
is
your
name
,
I
am
seriously
opposed
to
operations
of
this
kind
,
just
as
I
am
to
the
folly
that
brings
girls
and
young
men
to
the
point
where
they
seem
to
think
they
are
necessary
.
A
physician
may
not
interfere
in
a
case
of
this
kind
unless
he
is
willing
to
spend
ten
years
in
prison
,
and
I
think
that
law
is
fair
enough
.
Not
that
I
do
n't
realize
how
painful
your
present
situation
appears
to
you
.
But
there
are
always
those
who
are
willing
to
help
a
girl
in
your
state
,
providing
she
does
n't
wish
to
do
something
which
is
morally
and
legally
wrong
.
And
so
the
very
best
advice
I
can
give
you
now
is
that
you
do
nothing
at
all
now
or
at
any
time
.
Better
go
home
and
see
your
parents
and
confess
.
It
will
be
much
better
--
much
better
,
I
assure
you
.
Not
nearly
as
hard
as
you
think
or
as
wicked
as
this
other
way
.
Do
n't
forget
there
is
a
life
there
--
a
human
--
if
it
is
really
as
you
think
.
A
human
life
which
you
are
seeking
to
end
and
that
I
can
not
help
you
to
do
.
I
really
can
not
.
There
may
be
doctors
--
I
know
there
are
--
men
here
and
there
who
take
their
professional
ethics
a
little
less
seriously
than
I
do
;
but
I
can
not
let
myself
become
one
of
them
.
I
am
sorry
--
very
.
"
So
now
the
best
I
can
say
is
--
go
home
to
your
parents
and
tell
them
.
It
may
look
hard
now
but
you
are
going
to
feel
better
about
it
in
the
long
run
.
If
it
will
make
you
or
them
feel
any
better
about
it
,
let
them
come
and
talk
to
me
.
I
will
try
and
make
them
see
that
this
is
not
the
worst
thing
in
the
world
,
either
.
But
as
for
doing
what
you
want
--
I
am
very
,
very
sorry
,
but
I
can
not
.
My
conscience
will
not
permit
me
.
"
He
paused
and
gazed
at
her
sympathetically
,
yet
with
a
determined
and
concluded
look
in
his
eye
.
And
Roberta
,
dumbfounded
by
this
sudden
termination
of
all
her
hopes
in
connection
with
him
and
realizing
at
last
that
not
only
had
she
been
misled
by
Clyde
's
information
in
regard
to
this
doctor
,
but
that
her
technical
as
well
as
emotional
plea
had
failed
,
now
walked
unsteadily
to
the
door
,
the
terrors
of
the
future
crowding
thick
upon
her
And
once
outside
in
the
dark
,
after
the
doctor
had
most
courteously
and
ruefully
closed
the
door
behind
her
,
she
paused
to
lean
against
a
tree
that
was
there
--
her
nervous
and
physical
strength
all
but
failing
her
.
He
had
refused
to
help
her
.
He
had
refused
to
help
her
.
And
now
what
?
The
first
effect
of
the
doctor
's
decision
was
to
shock
and
terrify
them
both
--
Roberta
and
Clyde
--
beyond
measure
.
For
apparently
now
here
was
illegitimacy
and
disgrace
for
Roberta
.
Exposure
and
destruction
for
Clyde
.
And
this
had
been
their
one
solution
seemingly
.
Then
,
by
degrees
,
for
Clyde
at
least
,
there
was
a
slight
lifting
of
the
heavy
pall
.
Perhaps
,
after
all
,
as
the
doctor
had
suggested
--
and
once
she
had
recovered
her
senses
sufficiently
to
talk
,
she
had
told
him
--
the
end
had
not
been
reached
.
There
was
the
bare
possibility
,
as
suggested
by
the
druggist
,
Short
and
the
doctor
,
that
she
might
be
mistaken
.
And
this
,
while
not
producing
a
happy
reaction
in
her
,
had
the
unsatisfactory
result
of
inducing
in
Clyde
a
lethargy
based
more
than
anything
else
on
the
ever-haunting
fear
of
inability
to
cope
with
this
situation
as
well
as
the
certainty
of
social
exposure
in
case
he
did
not
which
caused
him
,
instead
of
struggling
all
the
more
desperately
,
to
defer
further
immediate
action
.
For
,
such
was
his
nature
that
,
although
he
realized
clearly
the
probably
tragic
consequences
if
he
did
not
act
,
still
it
was
so
hard
to
think
to
whom
else
to
apply
to
without
danger
to
himself
.
To
think
that
the
doctor
had
"
turned
her
down
,
"
as
he
phrased
it
,
and
that
Short
's
advice
should
have
been
worth
as
little
as
that
!
But
apart
from
nervous
thoughts
as
to
whom
to
turn
to
next
,
no
particular
individual
occurred
to
him
before
the
two
weeks
were
gone
,
or
after
.
It
was
so
hard
to
just
ask
anywhere
.
One
just
could
n't
do
it
.
