was Ken--but he looked so much
older--he was so much changed--that scar--the lines about his eyes and
lips--her thoughts went whirling helplessly.

Ken took the uncertain hand she held out, and looked at her. The slim
Rilla of four years ago had rounded out into symmetry. He had left a
school girl, and he found a woman--a woman with wonderful eyes and a
dented lip, and rose-bloom cheek--a woman altogether beautiful and
desirable--the woman of his dreams.

"Is it Rilla-my-Rilla?" he asked, meaningly.

Emotion shook Rilla from head to foot.
Joy--happiness--sorrow--fear--every passion that had wrung her heart in
those four long years seemed to surge up in her soul for a moment as
the deeps of being were stirred. She had tried to speak; at first voice
would not come. Then--"Yeth," said Rilla.

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