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EXPERIMENTS WITH REJUVENATION
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Comstock said to Elnora, "You are sure you won't be lonely here?"

Elnora knew what she really meant.

"Quite sure," she said. "For a time last fall I was glad to be away, but that all wore out with the winter. Spring made me homesick as I could be. I can scarcely wait until we get back again."

So they began that summer just as they had begun all others—with work. But both of them took a new joy in everything, and the violin sang by the hour in the twilight.