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The girl slept till late the next day. When she got up she did not bid me Good day, but dressed herself up and went to a New Year party. I behaved as if nothing had happened. But I had no idea whether she might not yet run into the sea when least expected, for no one could be certain about that child. In the evening the phone rang; it was her. She talked with a hot palpitating breathlessness as if she had been drinking, in a feverishly rapid torrent: "You musn't say anything to Daddy. Daddy must never know a thing. I'm going to run away."
"Run away? " I said. "Where to?"