8/26 "We are near the road," she said quietly. "Come! you promised to show me where you camped. Let us make the most of our holiday. In an hour I must leave the woods." "But I shall accompany you, dearest." "No, I must go as I came--alone." "But Nellie"-- "I tell you no," she said, with an almost harsh practical decision, incompatible with her previous abandonment. "We might be seen together." "Well, suppose we are; we must be seen together eventually," he remonstrated. |