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"Only for man; how bitter not to grave / On his Soul's palms one fair, good, wise thing / Just as he grasped it. " / -ROBERT BROWNING.
LESLIE went back to the studio bewildered. She had sent him away without excuses. He wondered blankly what he was being punished for, and why she was denied him in the present; and as Kew Gardens, unless one is a naturalist, is not the place one goes to alone, he sat down before his picture and thought about her in the past.