The Charm School
"You might have left me some clue."
"I was afraid if I did the others might find it, too."
"I had absolutely no reason for thinking you were here."
"No, except I wanted you so much."
"Elise!"
"Don't let's talk now. Drive on."
He turned on his lights, shoved in his gears, and the car made its way through the mild April night, through open farming country and quiet villages and down into cool little hollows where noisy brooks were running. They drove a long time without speaking, too wise to interrupt the silence with anything so inadequate as speech. And then suddenly they realized that, though they never intended to be parted again this side of the grave, they might never have another opportunity to explain how they had felt on first seeing each other, when it was that the unique character of their emotion had first thrust itself upon their conscious attention, and, "Do you remember the day?" and "Had you any idea what I meant when—" It appeared, for the human mind is a wonderful mechanism, that they remembered not only every time they had ever been together, but that they
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