_I_ have shut out
to-morrow ever since I saw you."
"And yesterday?" She noted that he coloured slightly, but continued to look
at her, his eyes sad. "But there is a to-morrow," she went on.
"Yes--my work, my career is my to-morrow and yours is----"
"Well?"
"Your engagement, of course."
Miss Trevor flushed, but Howard was smiling and she did not long resist the
contagion.
"My to-morrow," he continued, "is far more menacing than yours. Yours is
just an ordinary, every-day, cut-and-dried affair. Mine is full of doubts
and uncertainties with the chances for failure and disappointment. If I can
turn my back on my to-morrow, surely you can waive yours for the moment?"
"But why are you so certain that I wish to?"
"Instinct. I could not be so happy as I am with you if you were not content
to have me here."
They spoke little until they were well within the Park. There they turned
down a by-path and took the walk skirting the lower lake. Miss Trevor
looked at Howard with a puzzled expression.
"I never met any one like you," she said. "I have always felt so sure of
myself. You take me off my feet. I feel as if I did not know where I was
going and--didn't much care. And that's the worst of it."
"No, the best of it. You are a star going comfortably through your universe
in a fixed orbit.
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