little thing that makes me wonder. But Betty is absolutely perfect, no wonder we never suspected. As to Jack, that is entirely up to Evelyn, it is her whole future life. Somehow or other, while I expect her to marry sometime, I never thought of a son-in-law in a dress. But from what you say, Jack was intended to be Betty. I have liked Betty ever since you moved here and I don't think Evelyn could do better than to say yes.

Mrs. Lawrence said, "I feel the same as Jin. I have gotten to love Betty like one of my own, and I know Evelyn loves her too. I don't think it will be hard to include Jack in that love. One thing sure, they will get along together, for they have had three years now together without one quarrel. Jim here says no one can understand women sometimes. Well, there have been plenty of times I couldn't understand him either. But

I just went along with him, thought that was the way men were built and nothing I could do about it. Girl- boys like Betty can understand both sides. So for my part I hope Jack wins out. But I won't say anything to Evelyn either way. Still I think she will know how we feel about it without asking."

I often went over to their garden on hot evenings for they had a lovely cool seat that caught any breeze there was. That evening it was Jack who went over feeling as shaky as Betty ever had felt in her whole life. Evelyn noticed it at once and asked it anything was wrong. I said not wrong, but her near accident had upset things completely for me. She said that was not hard to understand, it was a shock to her too and she was lucky I had been there to pull her back, but she had got over it so why should it affect me so much. I said "Evelyn it's because I am not the girl you think I am at all. I am really two persons and the one that has been buried since I was small has all at once become the most important one. Your accident brought him back. I know that sounds crazy. So, dear, will you please just let me tell you about my life, and not say anything, just try to understand, till I get through. If you can only understand, it will be the most important thing in my life to me"

So I started from by birth. She gave a sort of

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