So she said, in her even voice:
"You waste such a lot of your good energy, Barney, by exploding when
there's nothing to blow up. That's exactly what I'd decided to do.
Miss Sherwood has asked me out to Cedar Crest to-morrow afternoon, and
I'm going."
Barney let go the hold he had kept upon her wrists, and the dark look
slowly lifted from his face. "Why didn't you tell a fellow this at
first?" he half grumbled. Then with a grim enthusiasm: "And when you
come back, you're going to tell us it's all settled!"
"Of course--if he asks me. And now suppose you two go away. You've
given me a headache, and I want to rest."
"We'll go," said Barney. "But there may be some more points about this
that we may want to talk over a little later to-night. So better get
all the rest you can."
But when they had gone and left her to the silence of her pretentious
and characterless suite, Maggie did not rest. She had made up her
mind; she was going to do as she had said. But there was still that
same turmoil within her.
Again she thought of Larry. But she would not admit to herself that
her real motive for suddenly deciding to go to Cedar Crest on the
morrow was the chance of seeing him.
CHAPTER XXVI
During all these days Larry waited for news of the result of the
experiment in psychology which meant so much to his life.
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