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Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932

"The Real Adventure"

"
"No," he said. "We'll do it the other way."
And then he took her back to the gray brick entrance and, just out of
range of the elevator man, kissed her good night.
"But will you telephone to me as soon as you wake up in the morning, so
that I'll know it's true?"
She nodded. Then her eyes went wide and she clung to him.
"_Is_ it true, Roddy? Is it possible for a thing to come back like that?
Are we really the old Rodney and Rose, planning our honeymoon again? It
wasn't quite three years ago. Three years next month. Will it be like
that?"
"Not like that, perhaps," he said, "exactly. It will be better by all
we've learned and suffered since."


CHAPTER V
THE BEGINNING

There was a sense in which this prediction of Rodney's about their
honeymoon was altogether true, They had great hours--hours of an
emotional intensity greater than any they had known during that former
honeymoon, greater by all they had learned and suffered since--hours
that repaid all that suffering, and could not have been captured at any
smaller price.


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