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"Nearly there now. inquired Frank Ryder.

"Famished"

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Hungry?"customs; send valentines, and have That must be the reason why us all dancing round the Maypole she'd tramped these miles with on the first of May, and lighting him, though she had an enormous St. John' fire on Midsummer Eve blister on her heel why she'd and..."

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It was certainly like no other! party she'd ever attended. ·

Ruth, in brown satin, pattern- roses, Frank

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A neighbouring farm- "Do come in. the kettle's boil and cider, but no cocktails, ing." she said.

we're asking a few people from er with his wife and daughters; They had breakfast in the kit-the village."

the local doctor; Mrs. Purvis, who |chen, eggs and bacon and fried “I believe she'd enjoy it. Frank" kept the general shop, with Miss potatoes and homemade bread and said, Ruth Ryder, who possessed Blake, who farmed lavender. Mr. black-currant jam, and

person's con-Hassell who ran kennels, and Bill great the simple-minded a

that many cups of tea, and Julia lis-viction that anything

she Best, from "The George.” tened. while Frank and Ruth dis-enjoyed so much herself must bring cussed cabbages and the retail a like enjoyment zo others. price of eggs.

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The cake was cut, amidst great excitement and giggling, when it turned out that Frank Ryder had got the bean in his alice. and Doris Nicholls the pea.

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Julia stole a glance at his set, drunk in "Lamb's Wool," a cou-a pretty fool I shall look. What, "Darling, it was too romantic! brown face.

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a vegetable cart **I'I run 3*Ou down to

without which his eyes narrowed with the "Are you-annoyed with me for roasted apples,

temper.

quite decent. He was at village," said Frank Ryder, light-staying?" she said.

Twelfth Night could not be pro-"I it comes to that, what d'you school with Binge Hartley ing his pipe. "Then you can ring "Why should I be?" he answer-perly celebrated.

suppose I think?"

if you could have seen the kitchen up your-er-boy friend, he'll befed coolly.

Though it was unlike any others

and dinner at twelve-thirty gambit party that Julia had ever been to, Julia was as pale as the mistletoe

too mirth-making." having there was no mistake about its berries above her head.

"I'm not interested in

Only somehow it wasn't funny being a successful one.

Four thoughts, Thomas,” she said. Shejany more now; that was one story she would never tell anyone, ever. "Please go." Frank, opened the door.

the A fairy story, that's what Thomas went, · slamming

the door.

whole thing was, unlikely. That was that Exit Thomas,believable, absurd. Ridiculous to Seel like that about a man she defnitely, this time.

Julia stood staring at the closed hardly knew, yet Julia knew that door, mechanically brushing the the emotions that filled her were. crumbs from the front of herjaot ridiculous, that the umbeliev jumper.

jable, unlikely things were true. "Julia," cried Frank, "then you "I'm sorry?" said Frank quick- haven't.."

ly. "I believe you absolutely, you "Gone back with Thomas? No." know I do. I'm sorry, Jalis, I..." she smiled wryly. "No more lifts from Thomas--ever.”

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"I truly hope you'll enjoy it." Cool. polite, non-committal. The magic of the early morṇ-- ing drive had gone.

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"Happy months," said handing her a mince pie. "This is my third." "But you want twelve months, don't you?"

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There was a knock at the door. "I didn't try. I just gave Mrs. [loud, peremptory. Palmer my address.”

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"What?"

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"Finished?"

From the kitchen they could hear the sounds of Euth winding up the clock, raking out the fire. "It had never begun. felt bolting the shutters, pleasant, sorry after last night, it was my homely sounds.

I

He stood there, stiff, awkward, fault, too. I'd have apologised, I "It is getting late," she called.

meant to, just now, only Thomas "Would either of you two care for conspicuous in evening dress.

"I've come to fetch you. The said he said it doesn't matter anything? Hot milk, or another

what he said, except that it isn't mince pie?" car's outside," he said briefly.

"Won't you have a drink?" said true." Frank Ryder.

Julia looked at her watch. It Frank Ryder looked at her an- was barely eleven.

*You raust try the 'Lamb's gry face. Wool,' it's divine."

So he had remembered that. After dinner. Ruth said: "Don't you know that

"I shall be terribly busy the. mince pie that you eat between whole afternoon getting things Christmas and Twelfth Night en-ready, so if you two like to zo sures you a happy month in the for a long walk- New Years?"

"All right, we won't hang about **Fun. But Twelfth Night...' where we're not wanted,"

said "It's to-morrow, but as that's Frank. "Expect us when you see Sunday, we're having the party." to-night. That's what the mince It seemed to Julia, who was pie. pies are for and the Twelfth not used to walking, that they Night Cake."

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"Happy months, Julia ?" Julia's eyes met his.

ske

“I don't think 1 like Thomas "No, thank you," said Thomas very much." he said slowly.

How many times Žád she gazed "He's all right, I expect I'm at Thomas, Roland; Bud, over the stiffy.

"Oh, well, happy months," said the bad egg," said Julia sombrely-rim of her glass, to the toast of Julia, her teeth in her third mince "It's awfully hard to-to know "Happy days"? Happy days, fleet- some things, you've got to learning, ephemeral things, time spent in one night club, or another. "You don't seem to understand, I feel kind of muddled."

"You're tired out," said Frank dancing, drifting idly, purpose- tramped over the whole of Surrey, Julia," Thomas drew her away It was a king among cakes, as a Surrey of turfed hills, scarred from the others, out into the hall. Ryder gently. "You must get to lealy, just because hadn't big as a cartwheel.

by chalk-pits of thickets of yew. Last night, your filthy temper..sleep. The people are leaving, we known that there could be another "It's made of flour, honey, beech, and whitebeam.

what on earth do you think you're break up early down here, besides, kind of life, had never met any. ginger and pepper-my recipe's Frank Ryder told her of the doing down here, with all these to-morrow's Sunday. I'd forgot one who had made her want to two hundred years old Oh, and Pilgrims' Way, a prehistoric track people?"

ten that, you may have difficult try it. about getting a car to take you

echoed "Happy months," she *back"

softly.

Winter changing into spring trains are pretty with the first daffodils, spring

"I'm enjoying myself."

"I'll go by train"

"The Sunday

"Ifive."

123?

a bean and a pea; whoever finds supposed to have been used by the the bean in his slice is the king, Canterbury Pilgrims, of the Weald. "Nonsense. Why, it's like and the person who discovers the which was once the centre of iron-schooltrest, all these yokels. Some per is the queen of the evening. smelting in England. He spoke awful bounder It's great fun. There csed to be simply, of simple things -- birds, "I like these people, all of awful. There's a good one about warning to Summer. summer's all sorts of revels. In Ireland, Sowers, butterfiles, crops, cows them,” protested Julia hotly.

harvest turning into autumn, they used to set a sleve of cats boring, country things, at which don't think I've ever enjoved mr- "If you could put up with me happy months, that stacked up into up as high as they could, with the town-bred Julia had frequent- self so much".

till then."

solid, happy years. dozen candles lit in memory of 1 mocked. Now she listened

have,"

"ould you put up with

Rath came into the hall, carry- the Twelve Apostles, and in meekly, with interest even.

"Dash- Sunday down here means church ing a lamp, which she handed to Devonshire, the farmer went into suppose it's because he's gut ing off in a fury, heaven knows and · roast beef and Yorkshire Julia his orchard on Twelfth Night and a rather charming voice," she re-where. I rang up your place a pudding and-" drank the trees' health in cider fected. "Like Sarah Bernhardt. dozen times, before I got the ad-{ "Id like text. **

a golden voice; she'd have chars dress from Mrs: Palmer, dragging "To tell your friends about?

Happy, months, Julia thought, *Ruth well

away on bered people if she'd; merely recited me down here at this time of Too, too archaic, my dear!"

content that the months would favourite subject," said Frank, the alphabet, and this man's the night 6′′

Julia flushed.

bring her happiness as, lamp in poking his head round the door. same, it doesn't matter what be

"That isn't fair, that isn't hand, shé mounted the stairs. "She'd like to revive all the old says"

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"It's more than Thomas's tone was acid.

"But Thomas-" "This'll be all over London," and true," she said.

"Good-night, Julia." "Good-night, Frank."