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WHEN Hope found Mrs. Dane's welcoming arms round her, she clung to her almost hysterically. The relief and rest, after her anxious life lately, were too much for her.
"Oh," she said, with a sob in her throat, "I have longed for you so! I really believe I have longed as much for you as for Lancelot; only don't tell him so. I feel as if I am twenty years younger at this moment than I was this time yesterday. Girls talk of independence and freedom! I am longing to be dependent on some one, to let myself go without any more thought or contrivance, knowing that I have people at the back of me. Am I getting incoherent? I feel quite unnerved."