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During the days that followed his afternoon on the lake at Blandford / Vane found himself thinking a good deal more of Joan than augured well / for his peace of mind. He had been over to call, and had discovered / that she had gone North very suddenly, and it was not certain when she / would return. And so he escaped from Aunt Jane as soon as he politely / could, and strolled back through the woods, conscious of a sense of / acute disappointment.
He went to his customary hiding place by the little waterfall, and, / lighting his pipe sat down on the grass.