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I woke with a heavy heart the next morning, for I knew that Jim would be / home before long, and that it would be a day of trouble. But how much / trouble that day was to bring, or how far it would alter the lives of / us, was more than I had ever thought in my darkest moments. But let me / tell you it all, just in the order that it happened.
I had to get up early that morning; for it was just the first flush of / the lambing, and my father and I were out on the moors as soon as it was / fairly light. As I came out into the passage a wind struck upon my / face, and there was the house door wide open, and the grey light drawing / another door upon the inner wall. And when I looked again there was / Edie's room open also, and de Lapp's too; and I saw in a flash what that / giving of presents meant upon the evening before. It was a / leave-taking, and they were gone.