20/29 The result was, I could not keep away from her. I managed to get home with leaden limbs. Next day I was back at Dipwell. I made violent love to this silly country beauty, and held every advantage over her other flatterers. She had met me on the evening of the great twenty-first, she and a line of damsels dressed in white and wearing wreaths, and I had claimed the privilege of saluting her. |