have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn''t have kissed her, without wanting to save her.
So, I did nothing. I did nothing the next night, too, and the night after that; and soon, there were no more nights: the time, that had always gone so slow, ran suddenly fast, the end of April came. And by then, it was too late to change anything.
Chapter Six
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Gentleman went first. Mr Lilly and Maud stood at the door to
see him leave, and I watched from her window. She shook his
O'' hand and he made her a bow. Then the trap took him off, to the
station at Marlow. He sat with folded arms, his hat put back, his
face our way, his eyes now on hers, now on mine.
There goes the Devil, I thought.
He made no sort of sign. He did not need to. He had gone over his plans with us and we had them by heart. He was to travel three miles by the train, then wait. We were to keep to Maud''s parlour till midnight, then go. He was to meet us at the rive