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to me yesterday about leaving town, when — when we got
married.”
She went to him and put her hands on his shoulders.
“Dearest — if it is as you say, I will have to go away.
Helge, Helge! What shall we do?”
“I am going,” he said abruptly, lifting her hands from his
shoulders and pressing them against his face.
They stood a moment in silence.
“But I must go too. Can you not understand? As long
as I thought your mother absurd, even common, I could keep
my countenance, but now it is different. You should not have
said it, Helge — even if you are mistaken. I cannot go there
any more with that on my mind. Whether she is justified or
not, I cannot meet her eyes. I shall not be myself, and I shall
look guilty.”
“Come,” said Helge, leading her to the sofa and sitting down
beside her.
“I am going to ask you a question. Do you love me,
Jenny?”
“You know I do,” she said quickly, as if frightened.
He took her cold hand between both of his: “I know you
did once — though, God knows, I never understood why. But
I knew it was true when you said so. You were loving and
kind to me, and I was happy, but I was always afraid of a
time coming when you would not love me any longer.”
She looked up in his face, saying: “I am very, very fond of
you, Helge.”
“I know,” he answered, with a shadow of a smile. “I
don’t think you turn cold all at once to somebody you have
loved — you are not that kind. I know that you don’t wish to
make me suffer, and that you will suffer yourself the moment
you understand that you don’t love me any longer. I love you
above everything.”
He bent his head in tears. She put her arms round him.
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