Amelie with some dignity; ' nurse says it nearly every day.'
They had passed out of the shade of the trees on to the lawn near the house. Just in front of them was an ugly patch of black-looking earth, on which, however, the new growth of grass was beginning to show, Amelie stopped when they came to it.
' Ah, Bertie, those weeks!' she said—' those weeks when we were strangers! This black patch, where the bore-hole was begun, makes them more vivid to me than my memory of them. It is like them—a black patch.'
' Yet the grass springs again,' said he.
She took both his hands in hers.
' Yes, Bertie,' she said, ' the grass springs again, for the winter is past; I read it this morning only. It says beautiful things. “ The flowers appear on the earth, and the time of the singing of birds is come.” That is now, is it not? Then, further on, “ My beloved is mine, and I am his.” '
' And that is the best of all,' said he.
THE END
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