' So I'll keep
it, I think, if you don't mind.
"But that may make you a little more comfortable when you think things
over--and I'm sure we all deserve to be very comfortable indeed for quite a
long while after the very trying time we've just been through.
"_Good_-by, and I assure you that even if I shall never be able to think of
you in the future except as all wrapped up in the middle of those absurd
towels, I shall think of you quite kindly though rather ridiculously
nevertheless. And now if you will just run away a minute and wait down in
that car of Sargent's that Oliver--borrowed--so effectively--because I
must have one motherly word with Oliver alone before we part forever! Thank
you so _much_! _Good_-by!"
XLIII
So Oliver was left alone with her, he didn't know why. He noticed, however,
that when she came to talk to him, though it was still with lightness, she
was at no particular effort any longer to make the lightness anything but a
method of dealing with wounds.
"Mr. Billett does not seem quite to appreciate exactly how much your timely
pugilistics did for him," she observed.
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