Away Went Love
“Even apart from the terms of her agreement with Errol, she could not possibly go back to Richard and say, ‘I forgot—you’ll have to marry me after all. Otherwise, I shall have to marry Errol Tamberly.’In hopeless confusion she stood where she was on the pavement, until an unpleasant-looking man stopped and said:“Are you going or coming, sister? Or maybe”—he leant towards her with an inviting leer—“just staying?”Hope brushed past him and somehow found the way to her bus-stop. She must go home. Sh...e must—unless she was to go mad—concentrate all her thoughts on doing some active, simple thing during the next half-hour. To get home—that was the sole purpose of existence just now. Here was the bus. She must get on it—take her ticket in a perfectly normal way—sit there looking like any other girl going home late from business—remember to get off at the right stop. Never mind about anything else just now. The great thing was to get home.Once or twice during the ride she found that she was mentally addressing encouraging words to herself.MoreLess
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