She put out her hand and caught hold of her companion’s.
“Tory, you don’t think I have failed to appreciate your loveliness to me this summer. All the time when I have appeared most ungrateful I have cared most. I won’t talk about it now, only as you are an artist you understand better than I how one may see things in a wrong perspective. My view is clearer now whatever happens.”
Tory kneeled down:
“I wish I might be Ruth to your Naomi.”
CHAPTER XXI
KARA’S DEPARTURE
Believing that it would do his patient no possible injury, Dr. McClain agreed that Kara should see as many of her friends as she desired upon the last few days before departing for New York City.
Every spare hour Kara and Tory were together. The last few days Miss Victoria Fenton had asked Kara to stay with them at their home in the village. Farewell could be more easily said from there than at the Gray House on the edge of the town. There would be less difficulty in finally getting away.