[Miss Billy's Decision by Eleanor H. Porter]@TWC D-Link bookMiss Billy's Decision CHAPTER XVII 4/7
How he could love a song and hate it at the same time he did not understand; but he knew that he was doing exactly that.
To hear Billy carol "Sweetheart, my sweetheart!" with that joyous tenderness was bliss unspeakable--until he remembered that Arkwright wrote the "Sweetheart, my sweetheart!" then it was--( Even in his thoughts Bertram bit the word off short.
He was not a swearing man.) When he looked at Billy now at the piano, and thought of her singing--as she said she had sung--that song to him all through the last three days, his heart glowed.
But when he looked at her and thought of Arkwright, who had made possible that singing, his heart froze with terror. From the very first it had been music that Bertram had feared.
He could not forget that Billy herself had once told him that never would she love any man better than she loved her music; that she was not going to marry.
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