ghed, too.

"You should have made one. But what I was going to tell you was--I think
I began to be in love with you then. I didn't know it, but I did. And it
got worse and worse but I didn't know what ailed me till Johnny drifted
in, bless his heart! Then I did. Oh, Phyllis, it was awful! To have you
with me all the time, acting like an angel, waiting on me hand and foot,
and not knowing whether you had any use for me or not!... And you never
kissed me good-night last night."

Phyllis did not answer. She only bent a little, and kissed her husband
on the lips, very sweetly and simply, of her own accord. But she said
nothing then of the long, restless, half-happy, half-wretched time when
she had loved him and never even hoped he would care for her. There was
time for all that. There were going to be long, joyous years together,
years of being a "real woman," as she had so passionately wished to be
that day in the library. She would never again need to envy any woman
happiness or love or laughter. It was all before her now, youth and joy
and love, and Allan, her Allan, soon to be well, and loving her--loving
nobody else but her!

"Oh, I love you, Allan!" was all she said.

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