The Absurdity Is - Just That It Should Be Absurd
n quick enough to trap her smile. But he didn`t try it. "If you will let me build a little fire," he began again, "perhaps I can dry it out." "Oh, it doesn`t m
n quick enough to trap her smile. But he didn`t try it.
"If you will let me build a little fire," he began again, "perhaps I can dry it out."
"Oh, it doesn`t matter," she said. "It`s not much wetter than I am."
But the friendlier note in her voice caught his ear, and now he looked at her. "Well, the fire would dry you out, too," he said. And then, in a sort of outburst, he went on: "I--I simply can`t account for it at all. It was a horrible thing to do. But--well, I got up this morning in a perfectly vile temper, and, as long as I had a holiday, I thought I`d go off in the country somewhere by myself and try to work it off and--and think. And seeing you there on the car, somehow, made me all the madder--"
She gasped out a little "Oh`" which demoralized him still further.
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