68/105 This will occupy me perhaps for a week, and you 'll not see me. Don't miss me--learn not to miss me. R.H." "Why, it means," Rowland commented, "that he has taken up a piece of work, and that it is all-absorbing. That 's very good news." This explanation was not sincere; but he had not the courage not to offer it as a stop-gap. But he found he needed all his courage to maintain it, for Miss Garland had left her place and approached him, formidably unsatisfied. |