e crushed so
tightly that it hurt. "And I want you with me."

They heard a sudden noise from the cliff top where two boys raced and
shouted, so they walked on. Feathery clots of foam blew before them on
the sand, almost as if sea-flowers from the changeless ocean were being
flung in the pathway of that which is unchangeable in human life.

After a while Caroline said with a start, waking out of her dream: "I
wonder what Mrs. Bradford will say? But she won't be so upset as Miss
Ethel would have been." She lowered her voice. "Do you know what Miss
Panton said it was that actually killed Miss Ethel? It was everything
being so different."

"Yes." He paused. "Well, thousands of people are dying from the same
cause, I suppose, all over the world--middle-aged ones, that is." Then
he strengthened his grasp on her arm. "But we're young. We're all
right. Eh, Caroline?"

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