As the door shut behind him, Amory stood a moment with his back against it.
"Hello, Benvenuto Blaine.

How went the advertising business to-day ?" Amory sprawled on a couch.
"I loathed it as usual!" The momentary vision of the bustling agency was displaced quickly by another picture.
"My God! She's wonderful!" Tom sighed.
"I can't tell you," repeated Amory, "just how wonderful she is.

I don't want you to know.

I don't want any one to know." Another sigh came from the window--quite a resigned sigh.
"She's life and hope and happiness, my whole world now." He felt the quiver of a tear on his eyelid.
"Oh, _Golly_, Tom!" ***** BITTER SWEET "Sit like we do," she whispered.
He sat in the big chair and held out his arms so that she could nestle inside them.
"I knew you'd come to-night," she said softly, "like summer, just when I needed you most...

darling...