207/250 "That's what happened to me with her to-day," she continued to explain. "It came home to me that that's what I've really been doing." "Oh, I see." "I needn't torment myself. She has taken them over." The Colonel declared that he "saw"; yet it was as if, at this, he a little sightlessly stared. "But what then has happened, from one day to the other, to HER? She misses him." "Then why hasn't she missed him before ?" Well, facing him there, among their domestic glooms and glints, Fanny worked it out. |