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ON THE WAY HOME.
LEFT by ourselves, there was a moment of silence among us.

Eustace spoke first.
"Are you able to walk back ?" he said to me.

"Or shall we go on to Broadstairs, and return to Ramsgate by the railway ?" He put those questions as composedly, so far as his manner was concerned, as if nothing remarkable had happened.

But his eyes and his lips betrayed him.