[The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan]@TWC D-Link bookThe Pool in the Desert CHAPTER 2 10/14
So I dropped it and took a more general line towards life.
But I find it very easy to imagine myself dedicated to that particular one again.' 'You never told me,' I said.
Why had I been shut out of that experience? 'I tell you now,' Dora replied, absently, 'when I am able to offer you the fact with illustrations.' She laughed and dropped a still illuminated face in the palm of her hand.
'He has wonderfully revived me,' she declared.
'I could throw, honestly, the whole of Simla overboard for this.' 'Don't,' I urged, feeling, suddenly, an integral part of Simla. 'Oh, no--what end would be served? But I don't care who knows,' she went on with a rush, 'that in all life this is what I like best, and people like Mr.Armour are the people I value most.
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