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"Here and now, or not at all."
"Phil!"
"What did you say to the girl I love?"
Then Edith Carr stretched out her arms.
"Phil, I am the girl you love!" she cried. "All your life you have loved
me. Surely it cannot be all gone in a few weeks of misunderstanding. I
was jealous of her! I did not want you to leave me an instant that night
for any other girl living. That was the moth I was representing. Every
one knew it! I wanted you to bring it to me. When you did not, I knew
instantly it had been for her that you worked last summer, she who
suggested my dress, she who had power to take you from me, when I wanted
you most. The thought drove me mad, and I said and did those insane
things. Phil, I beg your pardon! I ask your forgiveness. Yesterday she
said that you had told her of me at once. She vowed both of you had been
true to me and Phil, I couldn't look into her eyes and not see that it
was the truth. Oh, Phil, if you understood how I have suffered you
would forgive me. Phil, I never knew how much I cared for you! I will do
anything--anything!"
"Then tell me what you said to Elnora yesterday that drove her, alone
and friendless, into the night, heaven knows where!"
"You have no thought for any one save her?"
"Yes," said Philip. "I have. Because I once loved you, and believed in
you, my heart aches for you. I will gladly forgive anything you ask. I
will do anything you want, except to resume our former relations.
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