Chapter 58

"But please go slowly," she begged. She drew a little closer to David; a minute or two later she snuggled softly against his arm. Many a time in her childhood had she sat thus, when tired and sleepy after a long tramp; she had done it no less than a year ago. But David became almost immediately conscious that it wasn't the Susan of even a year ago who was bringing to bear upon him this sense of approach. Evidently she wanted to be near him for some other reason than because she was either tired or sleepy. But he ma…