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Gay was lingering by the gate, watching a big red moon rising behind a fringe of little dark elfin spruces over Drowned John's hill pasture to the east of her. Behind her, through the trees around Maywood, was visible a great, fresh, soft, empty, windy yellow sky of sunset. A little ghost of laughter drifted to her from the hill road. There was, it seemed, still laughter in the world. She was alone and she was glad of it. Just now life was bearable only when she was alone.
For weeks Gay had been dully unhappy--restless--indifferent. The new house no longer thrilled her; everything was tarnished. She wished drearily that she could go away--or die--or at least cease to exist. Life was too perplexing. She could not help thinking of Noel all the time. What was he doing--thinking--feeling? Was he very unhappy? Or was he--wiser? If she only knew the answers to those questions! She would never know them. And in little over a month she had to marry Roger.