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FLIGHT.
Billy feared if she did not mail the letter at once she would not have the courage to mail it at all.

So she slipped down-stairs very quietly and went herself to the post box a little way down the street; then she came back and sobbed herself to sleep--though not until after she had sobbed awake for long hours of wretchedness.
When she awoke in the morning, heavy-eyed and unrested, there came to her first the vague horror of some shadow hanging over her, then the sickening consciousness of what that shadow was.

For one wild minute Billy felt that she must run to the telephone, summon Bertram, and beseech him to return unread the letter he would receive from her that day.

Then there came to her the memory of Bertram's face as it had looked the night before when she had asked him if she were the cause of his being troubled.