He put her back very gently, and she saw that he was
pale.
"I think I'd better go now, and not come back," he said.
And for two long and endless days he did not come. Then on the
third he came, very stiff and formal, and with himself well in hand.
Audrey, leaning back and watching him, felt what a boy he was after
all, so determined to do the right thing, so obvious with his
blue-prints, and so self-conscious.
In June she left the hospital and went to the country. She had
already made a little market for her work, and she wanted to carry
it on. By that time, too, she knew that the break must come between
Clayton and herself if it came at all.
"No letters, no anything, Clay," she said, and he acquiesced
quietly. But the night she left, the butler, coming downstairs to
investigate a suspicious sound, found him restlessly pacing the
library floor.
In August he went abroad, and some time about the middle of the
month while he was in London, he received a cable from Graham.
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