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But though it was closed it troubled and worried him, and eventually he confided in his mother, telling her rather embarrassedly the full details. When he had finished she smiled.

"What extraordinarily foolish things you do!" she exclaimed. "Really, Philip, you have no tact at all. Didn't I tell you at Buda that she had a brute of a father and ran away from him? As for the marks on her shoulder, you should have seen them when I examined her first."

He nodded uncomfortably. "Do you think she will get over the misunderstanding?

"My dear Philip, she will have forgotten the incident years before you do. You don't understand her."

It was true. He could not forget the incident. Something lured him to it, time after time; and once he tried to draw her to speak of those early childhood days of cruelty and neglect.

To his intense surprise she replied: "Oh, I was—so—so happee...I used to play all ze time...Ver nice...Happee ver nice..." Evidently she had already forgotten.