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And then--and then--" "_He_ came," said Selwyn very quietly.

"Go on." But she had nothing more to say.
"Alixe!" She shook her head, closing her eyes.
"Little girl!--oh, little girl!" he said softly, the old familiar phrase finding its own way to his lips--and she trembled slightly; "was there no other way but that?
Had marriage made the world such a living hell for you that there was no other way but _that_ ?" "Phil, I helped to make it a hell." "Yes--because I was pitiably inadequate to design anything better for us.

I didn't know how.