A tremor ran through Justine. “It was you who said that,” she said, half-smiling.
“But didn’t you feel it with me? Don’t you now?”
“Yes—I do now,” she murmured.
He came close to her, and taking her hands in his, kissed them one after the other.
“Dear,” he said, “let us go out and look at the marsh we have drained.”
He turned and led her through the open doorway to the terrace above the river. The sun was setting behind the wooded slopes of Hopewood, and the trees about the house stretched long blue shadows across the lawn. Beyond them rose the smoke of Westmore.
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