The woman gives Author:Owen Johnson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Yes; me, too," she insisted. " I don't mind. I understand it." He rose without notice of the flowers she had brought in timid offering, and, going to the de... more »sk, took up a newspaper, stared at it, and handed it to her. She glanced at it long enough to get the full significance of the photograph and the head-lines: DAN GARFORD IN THE LIMELIGHT AGAIN Then she deliberately tore it into pieces and threw it into the waste-basket. " It's time for lunch; let's go out." He shook his head. The suggestion irritated him. " The walk will do you good." " Are you going to order me around ? " he said, frowning. " To-day, yes, because you can't make up your mind," she said, coming to him with his coat. It was rarely that she took a determined stand. He turned, resenting it. " We must come to an understanding," he said irri- tatedly. " I don't intend to be told to do this and do that If I want to cut loose, go wild, I'm going to do it!" She faced him resolutely. " Don't worry; I'm not asking you to do anything — no promises." She considered a moment, and corrected herself with a smile. " Only one promise." He drew back, prepared for an issue, frowning. "What one?" " Whatever you do, wherever you go, I am to go with you." He glanced at her sharply — the blurred look on his face that she dreaded. " What! Even nights like night before last! " he said cunningly. That inward struggle which he had been Then she deliberately tore it into pieces. Page 276. THE PEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY .?: :' :.enox And TU.DLN F'j JNQATIONS aimlessness and regret, of heavy forget fulness, long periods of taciturnity, with sudden, irrelevant speech — speech that came without warning, which seemed rather the man in the mists of his groping, taking counsel with himself....« less