He could not understand her when
she tried to tear the veil away and the terrible clearness of her soul
blinded his sight. Therein lay her charm for him--he could never reach
her, could never possess her even should she seek to approach him.
Behind the mystery of darkness which he might penetrate, there was still
the mystery of light.
"If you really care about him like that I don't see why you gave him up
and went away from him," he said helplessly. "You wanted to go. Nobody
urged you. It was your own choice."
"Yes, that's what you could never understand. I wasn't really going away
from him when I went. I was going to him. It was a long and a roundabout
road, but it was safer."
"You mean it brought you back in the end?"
"It not only brought me back, it showed me things by the way. It made me
understand about you and Blossom."
"By Jove!" he exclaimed, and was silent. The pang of his loss was
swallowed up in the amplitude of his wonder.
"Are you going to marry him, Molly?" he asked when the silence had
become unbearable.
"If he wants me. I'm not quite sure that he wants me. I know he loves
me," she added, "but that isn't just the same.
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