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The Woman’s Way

CHAPTER III
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Good-bye." She was about to sign her name, but did not do so; it was better that they should remain strangers to each other.
She went out softly, crossed the corridor on tip-toe, pushed the envelope under his door, then knocked very gently and darted back to her own room.

Listening, with a heart that beat like a sledge-hammer falling on an anvil, she heard him open the door, heard it close again; she waited almost; breathlessly, and presently his step crossed the corridor, and a piece of paper slid to her feet.

She picked it up and read: "To refuse your generous gift, to disobey your command--for to me it is an absolute command--would be ungrateful; would be worse.

I feel as if you had taken my life into your hands and had the right to dispose of it.

I am going.


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