"You promised that
you would come back, and then, when you saw me you tried to run away.
What made you do that?"
"Oh, but I tried so hard to find you!" Kathleen said. "You don't know
how hard I tried."
"But what made--?"
"I don't know; I just couldn't help it."
You notice how uninteresting Terence and Kathleen's conversation was
getting. They kept on with it, however, dull as it was. They turned
and went up over the hill to the blockhouse, and then down the steep
path on the other side and back along the north end of the Park. "Do
you come here often?" Terence asked.
"I have been here very often," Kathleen said, "trying to keep my
promise to you."
"I am here," he said, "nearly every day, at about this time; will you
come again?"
"Yes," Kathleen said, "if you would like me to."
They were close to the pool again now. "See that bright star up there
in the west?" said Terence.
Kathleen turned to look at it. "It is Venus," she said. Then she
turned back toward where Terence had stood. He was gone. She looked up
and down the path and all around, but she could not find him.
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