"Phil!"
For a second she was swept into Phil's arms, his kiss on her lips. Then they stood apart, looking at each other as if all at once they had discovered some new, sacred thing which all their love up to now had not taught them.
"Phil, I'm glad--glad it is you," breathed Sylvia. "Glad I'm going to be yours."
"Forever and ever, amen," said Phil Lorrimer, as solemnly as if he were pronouncing his own wedding service.
The actual ceremony took place the next day in the gray stone Gothic church where Sylvia's father and mother had been made man and wife. But to Sylvia, and perhaps to Phil, too, it always seemed as if the real wedding had been the night before in the white moonlight of Sylvia's own garden. There it was at least that Sylvia lost forever her fear of not being able to reach up to marriage however high it was. Love, she knew, would show her the way.
THE END
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WHEN PATTY WENT TO COLLEGE, By Jean Webster.