Yet an honest consciousness told her that as time flew by she feared more and more to tell him that he was wasting his life there and that she could not bear it.

Still was he wasting it?
Once in a while a timid and unfamiliar Carley Burch voiced a pregnant query.

Perhaps what held Carley back most was the happiness she achieved in her walks and rides with Glenn.

She lingered because of them.

Every day she loved him more, and yet--there was something.