You _do_ give a
darn about me."
"Yes."
"How much do you care--do you like any one better?"
"No." He could scarcely hear her, although he bent so near that he felt
her breath against his cheek.
"Isabelle, I'm going back to college for six long months, and why
shouldn't we--if I could only just have one thing to remember you by--"
"Close the door. . . ." Her voice had just stirred so that he half
wondered whether she had spoken at all. As he swung the door softly shut,
the music seemed quivering just outside.
"Moonlight is bright,
Kiss me good night."
What a wonderful song, she thought--everything was wonderful to-night,
most of all this romantic scene in the den, with their hands clinging and
the inevitable looming charmingly close. The future vista of her life
seemed an unending succession of scenes like this: under moonlight and
pale starlight, and in the backs of warm limousines and in low, cosy
roadsters stopped under sheltering trees--only the boy might change,
and this one was so nice. He took her hand softly. With a sudden
movement he turned it and, holding it to his lips, kissed the palm.
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