21/22 When perhaps I should feel that I have done with life, I am eager to begin it. I have lamented over myself lately." "How is Ben ?" "He has been here often. How strange it was that to him alone Veronica gave her hand when they met! Indeed, she gave him both her hands." "And he ?" "Took them, bowing over them, till I thought he wasn't coming up again. I do not call people eccentric any more," she said, faintly blushing. "I look for a reason in every action. |