differ in their kinds, there might be passive love, content to receive,
active love content to give, low love content to get, high love
content-- ... content to be. But wherever love existed at all, there
were two concerned in it. One might even reject, disdain, make mock, but
he must be there. He might refuse to put his signature which made the
contract valid, but the space for his signing must be there: the
contract, though it should never come into effect, must have a space for
two names. Otherwise, it could never have been drawn up.

Her thoughts swarmed to these conclusions, and before she knew that she
had spoken, she heard her voice say “Robin.”

It was not to the memory of him that she had spoken when she said that.
She had thought over the blessed days, and, in especial, the last
thrice-blessed day of all, and she had said good-bye to them, for they
were over. Gaze as she might at that door, never would Robin be outlined
against it, as he left her without turning his head; on the arm of the
chair where he had sat, never again could she feel his warm, smooth
fingers grasping hers, as she wished him the good luck of his honour.
But she had not spoken to the memories of what was irrecoverable: she
had spoken to someone who remembered, even as she remembered, who loved
even as she loved. She had not spoken to the past: she had spoken to the
present, giving him the contract for him to sign yet once more. And if,
with mortal eye, she had seen him by the door, turning back, though he
had said he would not, to smile at her again, she would not have thought
it strange. Nor would she have thought it to be a wraith, a phantom
projected from her own longing to see him. It would have been just
Robin; very likely he would have a smile and a ridiculous joke about
Miss Diphtheria for her. Why not? Must he lose his human characteristics
because a chance shell discharged not with regard to him had stiffened
and stifled him? What had that shell to _do_ with Robin? How could it
conceivably lessen the might of love, or put love among the things that
had been and were no longer?

Something dearly-loved, his laughing eyes, his mouth, his knee which she
had kissed and covered up, the body of him that was born of her body,
his blood and his bone, blood of her blood, and bone of her bone, were
somewhere buried in France, shattered and torn to fragments, or perhaps
pierced by some little pencil-mark of a wound that had left him fallen
backwards where a moment before he had stood eager and alert. She hoped
it had been like that, for she loved his beauty, and shrank from
thinking of its violent disfigurement. Some day, perhaps, she would know
how the supreme moment came to him; but it was no vital part of him that
was concerned in that. That was secondary compared with something else
that grew out of the darkness and glowed before her.

All this last month, after he had gone to France, she had felt his
presence with her, and had told herself that it was their love, the
reallest thing she knew, which had given her that certainty. That
certainty was with her still, and it arose from no memory of their love,
but from the love itself, which existed now. There were two to that
contract still, Robin and herself.

There began to be a stir of movement in the quiet house, and she started
up, wondering if some emergency had arisen for which her help might be
needed.... Then she saw that there was light coming through her
curtains, and, looking out, knew that the late winter dawn was beginning
to break....

She had to be up early that morning, for she had some arrears of work to
do, left over from yesterday, and it did not seem worth while to go to
bed for an hour. Presently there came a tap at the door from her
bedroom, and Simpson looked in, her old face puckered and puzzled to
find her sitting there.

“Eh, Miss Helen,” she said, “and you’ve not been to bed all night!
You’ve been sitting up and grieving----”

And then Simpson could not go on.

Helen got up and kissed her.

“Yes, darling old Sim,” she said, “I’ve been grieving. And then I
think--I think I’ve been rejoicing. I’ve found Robin again, Sim.”

Presently Simpson spoke again.

“And you’ll go to bed now, dear, won’t you?” she said. “You’ll take a
rest to-day.”

“No, indeed, I won’t. But I’ll take my cup of tea if you will bring it
in here. And then will you make me a hot bath? Really hot, Sim, so that
I scream when I move.”

Simpson patted and stroked her hand a moment longer, smiling through her
tears. “You were always one for a bath fit to boil you, Miss Helen,” she
said.

It had rained in the night, and the lawn shone with the moisture as the
sun rose. In the sky was “the bright shining after rain.”

THE END

_Printed at The Chapel River Press, Kingston, Surrey._

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