8/14 I suppose that is why you always have us under your thumbs. Don't you see that I am fighting for time, that I am trying not to _think_, that I am putting the thing from me as far as I can, even for a few minutes. Immediately you go, I shall have to face it all again, and--alone. You have been very good to me; you don't think I am ungrateful, because I--I play the fool ?" "Don't play it any longer, then," said Celia, earnestly. |