\"You're laughing now; but when you wrote me you were unhappy,\" he said.
\"Yes.\" She paused. \"But I can't feel unhappy when you're here.\"
\"I sha'n't be here long,\" he rejoined, his lips stiffening with the effort to say just so much and no more.
\"No; I know. But I'm improvident: I live in the moment when I'm happy.\"
The words stole through him like a temptation, and to close his senses to it he moved away from the
\"You're laughing now; but when you wrote me you were unhappy,\" he said.
\"Yes.\" She paused. \"But I can't feel unhappy when you're here.\"
\"I sha'n't be here long,\" he rejoined, his lips stiffening with the effort to say just so much and no more.
\"No; I know. But I'm improvident: I live in the moment when I'm happy.\"
The words stole through him like a temptation, and to close his senses to it he moved away from the
