"
"Abominable! I didn't have the salutatory, and the girl who did, read a
superb one, as strong and masculine--"
"Then the Judge went to sleep, I'm sure," declared Norman.
"Well," said Mae, "you are leaving out two years," for Norman had leaned
back against the rock with his arms folded.
"By and by," said Norman, "we all come off to Europe, and some of us go
through the heart-ache, don't we?"
"Yes," replied Mae, softly.
"But come out ahead one day at Sorrento, perhaps?" asked Norman. To
which Mae made no direct reply.
"All the Mae Maddens have faded away," she said, looking down at the
sand again. "The tide is rising." And she walked forward to the ripples
of water, and then came slowly back and stood before Norman seriously.
He laughed.
"Why, Mr. Mann," said Mae, "I have been so very, very wicked."
The dreadful Mr. Mann only laughed again.
"You act as if it were all a joke. I never saw you so merry before."
"I have never been as happy before in my life.
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