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280 A SOCIAL METEOR, “Tt was understood that there was to be no men- tion of love between us.” “T know, but I’m so happy that I cannot help asking if you aretoo. Let me put the question in a different way. Have you quite forgotten her?” ; “Why do you bring up these subjects, Ray, when you know how I dislike to talk on them? ~Weare both contented now, so don’t let us refer to anything which is likely to make discord between us. You are sweet and kind to me, and I don’t ask anything more. I try to live only in the present. The past was a failure, and the future—well, I never think of that.” “You would not change anything if you could ?” she pursued. “No!” he replied, almost harshly. He had half turned from her and his eyes were fixed upon the distant crater which was growing brighter steadily. She disengaged herself from him and went back to her chair. For a minute or two there was a silence between them, broken only by the low sobbing of the water on the shore. “Come here, dear.” It was Ray he spoke, and she motioned him to a seat at her feet. “There is something I want to tell you,” she | went on, “and which I have been trying to tell Eomicbooks (E(o)