"Doesn't she! My dear child, she's got to think it, or give up her belief."
She could see the gable end of Five Elms now. It would soon be over. When they got to the garden gate.
It was over.
"I suppose," he said, "I must shut the prison door."
They looked at each other through the bars and laughed.
"When shall I see you again?" he said.
II.
She had seen him again. She could count the times on the fingers of one hand. Once, when he came to dinner with Dr. and Mrs. Draper; once at Sunday supper with the Drapers after Church; once on a Saturday when Mrs. Draper asked her to tea again; and once when he called to take her for a walk in the fields.
Mamma had lifted her eyebrows and Mrs. Draper said, "Nonsense. He's old enough to be her father."
The green corn stood above her ankles then. This was the fifth time. The corn rose to her waist. The ears were whitening.