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I oughtn't to have upset you, but I couldn't help coming. She goes out, KATHERINE, into whom her emotion seems to have passed, turns feverishly to the window, throws it open and leans out. MORE comes in. MORE. Kit! Catching sight of her figure in the window, he goes quickly to her. KATHERINE. Ah! [She has mastered her emotion.] MORE. Let me look at you! He draws her from the window to the candle-light, and looks long at her. MORE. What have you done to your hair? KATHERINE. Nothing. MORE. It's wonderful to-night. [He takes it greedily and buries his face in it.] KATHERINE. [Drawing her hair away] Well? MORE. At last! KATHERINE. [Pointing to OLIVE's room] Hssh! MORE. How is she? KATHERINE. All right. MORE. And you? [KATHERINE shrugs her shoulders.] MORE. Six weeks! KATHERINE. Why have you come? MORE. Why! KATHERINE. You begin again the day after tomorrow. Was it worth while? MORE. Kit! KATHERINE. It makes it harder for me, that's all. MORE. [Staring at her] What's come to you? KATHERINE. Six weeks is a long time to sit and read about your meetings. MORE. Put that away to-night. [He touches her] This is what travellers feel when they come out of the desert to-water. KATHERINE. [Suddenly noticing the cut on his forehead] Your forehead! It's cut. MORE. It's nothing. KATHERINE. Oh! Let me bathe it! MORE. No, dear! It's all right. KATHERINE. [Turning away] Helen has just been telling me a dream she's had of Hubert's death. MORE. Poor child! KATHERINE. Dream bad dreams, and wait, and hide oneself--there's been nothing else to do. Nothing, Stephen--nothing! MORE. Hide? Because of me? [KATHERINE nods.] MORE. [With a movement of distress] I see. I thought from your letters you were coming to feel----. Kit! You look so lovely! [Suddenly he sees that she is crying, and goes quickly to her.] MORE. My dear, don't cry! God knows I don't want to make things worse for you. I'll go away. She draws away from him a little, and after looking long at her, he sits down at the dressing-table and begins turning over the brushes and articles of toilet, trying to find words. MORE. Never look forward. After the time I've had--I thought-- tonight--it would be summer--I thought it would be you--and everything! While he is
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