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18 A SOCIAL METEOR. badly to be forgiven at once. So I told him I wouldn’t promise anything for a year. Of course he pleaded with me and said he could not live without me, etc., etc., but I was firm, and told him that even if I was willing to take him back immediately, Aunt Margueret would not consent to it, as she was very much disgusted with him. So he agreed to wait. “Well, to make a long story a little shorter, we met after this, quite frequently, at the house of a mutual friend of ours, and pretty soon I found myself looking forward to the end of that year with as much eagerness as if I had not im- posed the probation myself. But”—hurriedly— ‘you know how unsatisfactory arrangements of that kind are apt to be; we could not meet openly, and other men, not knowing the state of affairs, began to pay me attention, which caused more trouble between us, and so, we have gradu- ally drifted apart. It’s a year now since I have even seen him.” : Her last sentence was delivered slowly, and with her eyes fixed on the fire. Ray leaned toward her. “Do you love him still, in spite of all?” she asked, softly. Eomicbooks, Go