Chapter 52

Still, his absence was what made it possible to imagine doing it. He couldn't think she had come on his account.... He might not return before she left the place. She might never see him at all. Then--what use being there? This use: she might find out what living in the country would do to her. For--she had to admit it--she couldn't get away from thinking about David; he seemed to have come into her life to stay, if only in her memory. Before she finally consigned him to being only a memory it would do no harm to d…