^PUBYM.AYBES
Twelfth Instalment
Diana, a young En*tiali rirl. la Im with
Dannie Waterman, a married nan, undergoee
a aerroua collapse and la ml to the country
to recuperate under the care of Dr. DaaaM
BatMwne, who Uve? near the totti|t where
the ataya. She fiuda heraelf falling in love
with the doctor, hut Mill tryina to hold Dennia'
affection. Linda, Dennia' wife, telle her that
ahe offered Dennia a divorce bat he would
not accept U; he would have felt compelled to
marry Diana. Diana'a lore for Doctor Rata
bone la tempered by jealouay of awoman
pamad Rosalie, who Uvea in the doctor a
oouae. At laat Rathbone Snda that he U
deeply in lo?e with Diana, but he confcaaca
to her that Roaalie ia hia wife.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
"I vu terribly sorry for her, too,
ind perhaps ? flattered that she
should think anything of me, but I
did not love her, Diana, and we were
just friends until . . . until I got an
appointment abroad. When I told her
about it she ... it was the first time
anything really definite was spoken
between us. Perhaps X wasn't very
brave, or perhaps I didn't really care
for her sufficiently well, but I tried
to show her how impossible it was ?
w that I could not . . . There is no need
to tell you every detail, and God knows
I am not blaming her any more than
I blame myself, bat without my knowl
edge she told her husband that she
cared for me, and she asked him to
divorce her. ... He refused. I have
often wondered why, seeing how he
had always neglected her. . . . Then,
after a short time, she left him.
Diana ? if you knew how hard it is
for me to tell you this "
He broke off agitatedly, but Diana
-did not speak, and after a moment he
went on again :
"In the end ... In the end ... I
agreed to take her away. We thought
it would force her husband to divorce
her. . . . She was so different in those
days, gay and reckless, never count
ing the cost of anything ? only living
for the moment . . . Then ? the night
before we were fo have gone she was
nearly killed in a motor accident
She was driving her own car, and she
was alone. ?. . She was unconscious
for days, and when she recovered . . .
she was as she is now ? like a child.
She recognized me, as she still recog
nizes me. but only as an affectionate
child might, and that is alL The rest,
everything that has happened in her
li'e, is gooe from her.
"I paid a visit to see her husband ?
the had nobody else who cared or who
could have looked after her ? and I
remember that he laughed in my face.
He was a mucb^ older man than I,
and he said to me, 'Well, you've begun
to pay already, Rathbone. and you'll
go on paying for the rest of your life'
... It seems that he was* right . . J
brought her down here to my house,
and I ?frs Farmer came to look after]
her. Two years later her husband died'
. . . and I married her, Diana. You see,
I'd always premised her that if she
was ever free I would. I gave my
word, and I felt that I must keep it
There was always a thought at the
back of my mind that perhaps some
day ahe might get better? and km not
I didn't tell anybody ? it wasn't any
body else's business, so she's still al
ways ^lis* Rosalie' to Mrs. Fanner
and Hobaon ? and to the rest of the
household. But she is my wife, Diana,
though I ? we ? we've never lived to'
gether as man and wife.
That's alL . . . Perhaps I was stu
pidly quixotic, but I was ? food of htf,
and besides ... I had given my wad.
She's like a gentle affectionate child ?
always happy ? asking nothing except
that people are kind to her. She made
very little difference to my life one
way or the other till ? till I met you,
and then I realized what I had done.
. . . Even then I thought it only meant
that I should be the one to go on ?
suffering. You seemed so much
younger than I feel ? I never imagined
you might ? might grow to care for
me, and when I realized that perhaps ?
qaite unconsciously ? you . . . had, I
tried my best? a poor best, I can see
now ? to keep you from realizing the
truth. I don't think you will ever
know what it meant to me . . . how I
. . . when Nero hurt you, and after
wards, when you . . . when you asked
Bie to tell you not to go away with
Waterman. I could have borne it for
myself, but to know you were un
h?]"Py ? perplexed . . . that yon didn't
understand why I should teem so . . .
unkind . . "
CHAPTER XVIII
Ke stopped speaking, and Diana said
fiMjti
"You mean that . . . she ? Rosa
lie . ./
^ * T J? ^ m i . ? il tan ^1 a ,4
LJKt iwttt win jinfieo? out of
hate,' " Rathbone quoted grimly.
Diana closed her eyes.
* There was a little silence; then the
said again:
"Perhaps? some day ? wlnu we're
fcoth quite old ? I shall wonder ... if
you Hive forgotten me. Do yon think
you will, Donald r
"I shall never cease to think of
yoo? end love yon." ??
"But youTl tend me away from too
? . . all the same. I know that's what
you mean to ia," she said with a ay
SSfc. obe s there for me to do*
Diana?"
"I could ice you sometimes ?
couldn't I? . . . Not very often if you
didn't want to ? but just . . . somt
limtt! ... I wouldn't care what peo
ple said if you didn't 111 do anything ?
anything you want me to do, if only
it doesn't mean I shall never see you
any more. . . . We could just fo on
? betas friends."
"Do you think we could just go
on being friends, Diana?"
She struggled for words in which
she could best express herself. "It
seems to me that it wouldn't be such
a great? wickedness if you and I
her tears, though she sat forlorn and
shivering without the shelter of his
close embrace.
Then Rathbone said heavily:
"I must take you home."
She waa silent for a moment ; then
she broke out:
"If I'm never going to see joa any
more "
"I didn't say that, Diana."
"But you mean it, I know it's ?hnt
you mean," she told him despairingly.
She broke off to ask breathlessly after
a moment : "I wonder what you thh'L
is to become of me?"
She would go back to London, she
?ar? ?. u L n ?
L=
She turned 'round, lifting her (act to him. "Kiaa m?, Donald."
lived together, even if we can never
be married. Don't think all the wrong
things about me for saying that I
know quite well what I'm saying. It
wouldn't be like going away with Den
nis ? that was just a sort of bravado ?
defiance ? to try and forget you. I'd
made up my mind to drink lots of
champagne to-night just so I should
not care, but if it had been yon . . .
I love you jnst as well every minute
of the day as I do now. I shouldn't
care if you never kissed me or made
love fo me at all. if I could jnst be
with you. I've been to silly. You said
once that you didn't believe I'd ever
met real love.
"I hadn't till you came. I must have]
been waiting for you. Can you under
stand that, too?"
"You make me very humble, Diana." 1
She leant forward a little, trying to |
sec his face.
"And ? will you?" she asked.
"Will I what, mv dear?"
"Let me live with you?"
Rathbooe turned suddenly, groping
for her through the dim light and
taking her to him with the strength
of despair.
"Let me kiss you ? let me kiss you."
She put her arms around him, and
their lips met and clung together in
a first kiss that seemed as if it could
never end; Diana could not think,
could not reason; she was only om
scious of the passionate joy he brought
her, and when at last he let her go,
she asked with a sob:
"And can you kiss me like that and
still want to send me away?" For
already she had realized the nopeleat
ness of her appeal.
"I love jrou so terribly," Rath bone
said, but it was no answer to her
Diana put up her hand and gently |
touched his face.
"Donald ?"
"Yes, my heart?"
She caught her breath on a half sob.
"How lovely," she whispered. "No
body has ever said a thing like that
to me before"
"Like what, Diana?" , ,
"'My heart'? isn't that what you
called me?" 1
"You are njy heart"
She leaned her cheek against his
shoulder, and his arm tightened a lit
tle, drawing her closer to him.
^fou're such a child," he said with
emotion.
She shook her bead. ,
"I'm not ? not any more I think II
grew up all in a moment, just now, |
when you lasted me"
"I ought not to have kissed you."
She laughed at that; the felt that
at all cotts she must not allow too
great a sadnest'to coam between them.
"Why not?" the asked. "Whynot
if you love me?" g
She turned round, lifting her faee
to his, "Kiss me again, Donald."
But he would not.
"We've got to face facts, Diana.
We've got to realixe that we can't
go on meeting ? like this. I'm not made
of stone We've got to make up oar
minds that the only pottible thing
U?. ___ jTUT-ful?fl lit "
to say gooo-ojre.
She gave a little cry.
"Don't do that D&wt Don't err,
for God> take . . . 1 can't stand ft.
I'm to blame for all Alt ? I ought
never to have dene what I did to-night
. . . You wert right when you told
me that I only just pretend righteout
neat."
He took his arm away from her.
and with a great effort tht checked
thought, tearfully, she would pay visits,
and laugh and flirt, and stay op late,
and get sick and weary and bored
once again, with no hope of anything w
better to come.
She said with a last effort:
"If you would only promise me that
some day I should see you again ?
2nd be with you. Can't I have any
thing to hope for? Don't you want
to be with me too?" C
"Every moment of all my life."
She said, with a touch of her old
obstinacy:
"If you really meant that, you
wouldn't send me away. You've often
talked to me about being happy.
I "Now I've got the chance ? a beau
tiful chance? you won't let me take it"
.She was silent for a long moment ;
then she said wearily: m
"Please take me home now."
Kathhonf started the car withot*
another word and drove silently back v
through the quiet lanes.
They were at the cottage gate now,
and Ratbbone stopped the engine.
Diana moistened her dry lip*.
"I suppose thia i? ? good-bye ?" she
said faintly.
"Let os say good-night instead,
Diana," Rathbone answered hoarsely.
"In my heart you know I can never
say good-bye t? you."
She said with a sob : "I don't want
to be only in your heart. I want to
be with you in real life. I want to
feel your arms round me ? to Ida
WM H
you.
He did not move for a moment;
then, almost roughly, he took her ia
his arms again, holding her silently,
not speaking at all, just holding her,
till after a long time he turned her
face up to his.
He kissed her many times? on her
eyes, her throat, her hair, and then
ooce again on her lips, before, very
gently, he put her away.
She stood beside him at the gate,
unable to speak, shaken to the depths
of her being, her eyes raised to him
in mute appeal; then suddenly she
turned and fled up the little garden,
sobbing as if her heart would break.
CHAPTER XIX
Tha following morains there
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"d* yoo too," she said
? ,, ~ * ? ? MUU
quietly. "Bot I suppose I shall have to
or\ "
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