[The Splendid Folly by Margaret Pedler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Splendid Folly CHAPTER III 15/16
He seemed reluctant to take it from her. "Shall you be warm enough ?" he asked doubtfully. "Oh, yes.
It's only half-an-hour's run from here to Craiford Junction, and there they'll meet me with plenty of wraps." She hesitated a moment, then went on shyly: "I can't thank you properly for all you've done." "Don't," he said curtly.
"It was little enough.
But I'm glad I was there." The train came to a standstill, and she held out her hand. "Good-bye," she said, very low. He wrung her hand, and, releasing it abruptly, lifted his hat and disappeared amid the throng of people on the platform.
And it was not until the train had steamed out of the station again that she remembered that she did not even know his name. Very slowly she unknotted the handkerchief from about her arm, and laying the blood-stained square of linen on her knee, proceeded to examine each corner carefully.
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