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SUNDAY morning dawned for Norman -- if it could be said to dawn at about ten o'clock -- with a sense of fatality. At first he didn't know why. He lay in bed, hearing his mother stirring in the kitchen. Then he remembered. She was getting breakfast for Madge. Madge was coming.
Suddenly in his imagination he saw the two of them left alone together. She would reproach him. Well, she had a right to. And he would feel sorry and ashamed. But he would defend himself -- he would try to make her understand. It would be like one of their old-time quarrels. For they had quarreled -- and made up. They had kissed and made up, always, and everything had seemed all right again.