CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
"There's a true Heart in the West World, that is beating
still for me,
Ever praying in the twilight once again my face to see.
Oh, the World is good and gladsome, with its Love both
East and West,
But there's ever one love only that is still the First and Best."
The low voice died away. A moment later, Ethel Dent pushed open one
of the long windows of the drawing-room and stepped out on the
veranda. The flower-boxes were filled with limp stalks, chilled by
the frost of the previous night; but the sun lay warm over the wide,
white steps, over the lawn and over the bay beyond. She stood for a
moment, staring thoughtfully out across the bay; then she moved on
to the western end of the veranda, looked up at Table Mountain with
its cloth of cloud, and then dropped down into one of the chairs
which still remained in the sunny corner.
That corner held many memories for her. She had sought it now
unconsciously; yet, once there, she lingered, although for weeks
past she had been seeking to banish those memories from her life.
Why keep them? They belonged to a chapter that was dead and gone.
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